MEGA NEWS-Forster's Tern-Again on buoy in Parkstone Bay viewed from Baiter Park; park in Harbourside Car Park BH15 1TQ-Poole-Dorset
Fatbirder's Top 1000 Birding Websites

22.8.25

TRAPPING MOTHS ON THE ISLES OF SCILLY

I have just returned from ten days on the Isles of Scilly and would like to extend my thanks to Mick Scott for kindly allowing Dan Pointon and me to view the moths he trapped each morning at his house in Longstones.


Here are a few of the moths that Mick trapped:

Small Marbled

White-point

Clay Triple-lines

Chinese Character

Small Angel Shades


Buff-tip

Rosy-striped knot-horn

Four-spotted Footman



Convolvulus Hawkmoth

Old World Webworm

Vestal

Ruby Tiger

Radford's Flame Shoulder

Straw Underwing

Portland Ribbon Wave

White-speck

Garden Pebble

Hemp-agrimony Plume

Pebble Prominent

Silver Y

Striped-hawk Moth