Steve Nash

Hodebertia testalis (Cream Pearl), to light at St Mellion, SE Cornwall (VC2) on night of 30/5. In fact I think there were 2 but one flew out before I had a chance to pot it. I believe this is the 4th British record, a first record for mainland Cornwall & the 1st non island record

An amazing week in St Mellion with several immigrant species arriving with the Saharan dust - Eastern Bordered Straw on 27/5 (2nd VC2 record), 14 Striped Hawk-moth (8 on 27/5), 6 Euchromius ocellea (Silver-spotted Veneer), 3 Small Marbled, Cosmopolitan, 7 Bordered Straw etc

Belated news from 25/4 in St Mellion. A 2nd Striped Hawk-moth (H. livornica) was netted during the evening, feeding on purple rhododendron. It was showing no interest in the lights. This was a different specimen to the previous night, which was marked & released 2 miles away.

A big surprise in the rap this morning, among 111 moths of 38 species.
1 Striped Hawk-moth (H. livornica)
7 Dark Sword-grass (A. ipsilon)
1 Small Mottled Willow (S. exigua)
7 Silver Y (A. gamma)
2 Angle Shades (P. meticulosa)
St. Mellion, SE Cornwall (VC2) on 24/4.

A few migrants made it to St Mellion, SE Cornwall last night, among the year's highest total of 295 moths of 49 species. 12 Plutella xylostella (Diamond-back Moth), Small Mottled Willow (Spodoptera exigua) and Silver Y (Autographa gamma).