Migrant Lepidoptera (GB & Ireland)

Saturday, 4pm

Sunday, 4am

Saharan dust load at 6am on Sunday

4pm, Sunday

There's plenty of migrant potential for Saturday and Sunday. The gusty wind will be a factor at times, although decreasing from the west. Saharan dust possible on Sunday. #teammoth

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In addition to Clancy's & Radford's, @migrantmothuk.bsky.social interest was: the pinkest of Vestals, the palest of Blair's Mocha (1 of 2), female Four-sp Footman, 6 White-points, R-d Pearl & Diamond-back Moth.
Also of interest 2 Swallow-tailed and a pretty late Lesser BBYU

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Green-brindled Crescent

Feathered Ranunculus

Delicate

Clancy’s Rustic

Jogging along in the Littlestone garden actinic moth trap….

Green-brindled Crescent and Feathered Ranunculus new for the year with their hints of green

Dark Sword Grass, Delicate, 5 ferrugalis (Rusty-dot Pearl) and Clancy’s Rustic the padders…

(SE Kent)

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#mothsmatter

Olive-tree Pearl (Palpita vitrealis) @Bawdsey_Hall last night. Otherwise, it has been generally quiet for migrant moths for the past week. @BC_Suffolk @MigrantMothUK

Some pristine Merveille du Jour from our S.Yorks garden last night. Possible migrants were Scarce Bordered Straw, White-point and Rush Veneer. Female Feathered Thorns don't come to light too often, so it was nice to see one amongst the males. #TeamMoth @bcyorkshire.bsky.social

Nice surprise this morning with Featgered Thorn and a Scarce Bordered Straw 😊

Ok, it's a rough cropped phone shot and but this Crimson Speckled was one of c15 on a cruise ship 08/10/2025 literally half way across the Med. between Palma de Mallorca and Cagliari Sardinia, along with an Old World Webworm and a couple of Humming-bird Hawk-moths. #teammoth

Another, fresher, Pearly Underwing was good but rarer still was only my 3rd record of Streak. #Northumberland #Teammoth

A large green caterpillar clings upside down under a branch

Couldn't believe it when we found a Death's-head Hawkmoth caterpillar on the Isles of Scilly. A serious wildlife ambition achieved! @sophieshrike.bsky.social #TeamMoth

Porter's Rustic

Porter's Rustic

A good night in St Mellion with 121 moths of 40 species. Migrants - Plutella xylostella (Diamond-back Moth), Palpita vitrealis (Olive-tree Pearl), 13 Nomophila noctuella (Rush Veneer), 8 Udea ferrugalis (Rusty-dot), Vestal, Delicate, Porter's Rustic (5th site record) & 2 Angle Shades #teammoth

A nice variety in SW Hants last night, with 33 of 21 recorded.
Beaded Chestnut, of which there were three, was NFY.
@migrantmothuk.bsky.social possibilities: 2 each R-d Pearl, White-point, Angle Shades, Blair's Mocha, 1 Four-sp Footman.
First Shuttle-shaped Dart & Vine's Rustic for weeks.

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Porter’s Rustic on St Mary’s today (with Vestal, Pearly Underwing and Radford’s Flame Shoulder. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

This Tuta Absoluta (tomato leafminer) trap overnight 7/10 at Broadwey Dorset, have attached my poor image. Phil Sterling has now confirmed id. @paulupwey.bsky.social @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

With thanks to @paulupwey.bsky.social for the id of this Hellula undalis, Old World Webworm. A new moth from my Broadwey Dorset trap.

Vestal

Old World Webworm

Olive-tree Pearl

White-speck

Last night's migrant moth catch not really up to expectations - stayed too clear and moonlit for too long? An Old World Webworm, 2 Olive-tree Pearl, 3 Vestal and 5 White-speck the best of the less regulars at the Obs.

Diasemiopsis ramburialis (Migrant Sable)

Possible Caloptilia honoratella

110 moths of 35 species in St Mellion on 6/10. Cooler & clearer than forecast. The 13th D. ramburialis (Migrant Sable) of the year, plus 2 Vestal. Also, a likely Caloptilia honoratella, which would be new to mainland Cornwall. Plus Four Spotted Footman, Clifden Nonpariel, Oak Nycteoline. #teammoth

@neilsmothman.bsky.social @migrantmothuk.bsky.social a White-speck at Landguard today

First Convolvulus Hawk of the Autumn today. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

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Yes, the Met Office are still insisting it's cloudy, when it's completely clear! Unfortunately the temperature is plummeting here, however I did net a ramburialis above the MV light a few minutes ago.

No sign of the promised cloud cover here yet, but mild after a positively warm day so hopefully the 8 species currently in will be the start of a good couple of nights.

Vestal

Dog's Tooth

Acleris emargana

Phyllonorycter messaniella

St Mellion 5/10. 8 N. noctuella (Rush Veneer), 5 U. ferrugalis (Rusty-dot), Vestal, 5 Pearly Underwing: 3 on ivy, Turnip Moth: on ivy, Phyllonorycter messaniella (NFY), Acleris emargana, Dog's Tooth (NFY), 3 Merveille du Jour, Red-line Quaker, 2 Pink Barred Sallow & 2 Pinion-streaked Snout #teammoth

Ni Moth (Trichoplusia ni) to light @Bawdsey_Hall on 2 October. It's been a good year for this species here. @MigrantMothUK @BC_Suffolk

Wow! You may well have a first Peter.

Dark Sword Grass - immigrant moth

Red Sword Grass

Sword Grass

This can’t have happened many times before, all three sword grasses to sugar in one garden on one night!

Dark Sword Grass, Red Sword Grass and Sword Grass!!

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17:00 on 6/10

5am on 7/10

9pm on 7/10

There may be an arrival of moths tonight (6/10) and tomorrow night from Iberia/Canary Isles. Very little wind, cloud cover and generally mild temperatures along the south coast of England, so it should at least be a good couple of nights for mothing. #teammoth

St Mellion migrants on 2/10:
7 Nomophila noctuella (Rush Veneer)
5 Udea ferrugalis (Rusty-dot)
3 Vestal
1 Four Spotted Footman
6 Turnip Moth
4 Dark Sword-grass
3 Pearly Underwing
1 l-album Wainscot
1 White-speck
2 Delicate
29 Angle Shades
1 Scarce Bordered Straw
1 Silver Y
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Despite the howling wind there's nothing like the arrival of much, much milder air to perk up migrant moth interest: Silver-striped Hawkmoth caught overnight at the Obs

Always exciting to see the massive Convolvulus Hawk-moth, one of our most spectacular migrant #moth arrivals. Last night in West Dorset (VC9).
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One of three Convolvulus Hawk-moths to light in the Cot Valley, Cornwall, last night. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social #TeamMoth