June 2024

Two weeks of trapping on St Mary's and a subsequent week in north Cornwall produced only one new species - Brevicornutia pallidana - and that was found by searching sheeps-bit at dusk. Whilst there I received a specimen of Crombrugghia laetus, that was trapped by Richard Wall in October 2023, to confirm the ID.  

52.004 Parenthrene tabaniformis (Dusky Clearwing); Westcliff-on-sea; 25/06/2024

62.018 Sciota rhenella; Foulness; 29/06/2024

49.140 Brevicornutia pallidana; St Mary's, IOS; 07/06/2024

45.026 Crombrugghia laetus; St Mary's, IOS; 15/10/2023

Trapping clearwings in my garden in Westcliff-on-sea I was fortunate enough to get Dusky Clearwing. And in an actinic heath trap set amongst poplars on Foulness I found 3 specimens of Sciota rhenella - FIRST FOR ESSEX - and presumably now breeding in Essex following their colonisation of Kent in the past couple of years.
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1765 species presented