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Many thanks Owen - it’s been a lot of effort

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Thanks very much
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Thanks Les!

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Many thanks Dave
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Thanks Steve. P.porrectella is almost annual in my garden but thought I’d missed it for this year
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Many thanks Nick. I almost certainly wouldn’t have been able to do it in Devon either, but a little bit of mothing in the Brecks, in Kent and elsewhere makes a big difference
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Many thanks. I don’t really know. Some people use the pan listing website for year lists (mine is there) but obviously only a tiny fraction of moth recorders do that. I’m sure plenty of others will have achieved the same, even without realising.
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This little moth (Plutella porrectella Streaked Diamond-back) in my garden last night was the big one!! My 1,000th moth species of the year in the UK! #teammoth
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Yes to Spruce Carpet (Juniper Carpet also correct for the other one)
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A couple of dark little moths from my garden in June have been confirmed as Grapholita funebrana (Plum Fruit Moth) & G. lobarzewskii (Small Fruit Moth). The latter was a new species for the garden. #teammoth
Grapholita funebrana (Plum Fruit Moth) Grapholita lobarzewskii (Small Fruit Moth)
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Amazing what some cloud cover can do - 5 NFY species in the garden trap last night after several weeks of not seeing anything new here: Barred Sallow, Green-brindled Crescent, Blair’s Shoulder-knot & Black Rustic, plus a Merveille du Jour that didn’t stay for the team photo. #teammoth
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The ‘new for Britain’ Oblique Wainscot (1 Nov 2024) has those thoracic stripes too, but also has an oblique apical stripe on each forewing, which I can’t see in your photo
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Surprised and delighted to find my first ever larval case of Coleophora violacea (White-tipped Case-bearer) on elm yesterday in a Worcestershire hedgerow. The feeding damage is distinctive as it pierces both surfaces of the leaf. #teammoth
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The books say that mines of Stigmella myrtillella (Bilberry Dot) are hard to find and I’d agree. Thankfully I eventually found my first one ever yesterday evening (in Leicestershire) after quite a lot of searching. Egg on underside near mid-rib as is typical for this species. #teammoth
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Excellent day in Nottingham celebrating the 50th anniversary of the fabulous @ukbms.bsky.social
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We’re kicking off the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme @ukbms.bsky.social 50th anniversary in style! 🦋

Firstly a video from our volunteers about why they take part. A huge thank you to all involved - we couldn’t do it without you!
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We’re kicking off the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme @ukbms.bsky.social 50th anniversary in style! 🦋

Firstly a video from our volunteers about why they take part. A huge thank you to all involved - we couldn’t do it without you!
@savebutterflies.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social
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Coleophora kuehnella (Cloaked Case-bearer) from back in June at a local site. ID confirmed thanks to a gen. det. by Tony Davis. It’s a rarely recorded species in Devon and one I’d not seen before this year - now seen the adult and the larval case at different sites. #teammoth
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This was a bit of a surprise when turning over apple leaves looking for leaf miners - Pale Tussock moth caterpillar 🐛 #teammoth
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Interesting- all but one of my garden records are from Oct/Nov, just a single one in July 2023
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I have no idea I’m afraid. It’s guesswork really, but their occurrences in Devon don’t always seem to particularly correspond to immigration, plus they are so regular now every year
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Blair’s Mocha emergence is starting. This lovely individual was in the garden trap this morning, a different one from yesterday. #teammoth
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Me neither
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Amazed to see my first ever Dusky-lemon Sallow on a very cold evening in south Devon this week. A rare species in Devon with only a handful of records this century. #teammoth
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Really looking forward to speaking in Wiltshire tomorrow about the impacts of climate change on UK butterflies & moths butterfly-conservation.org/events/wilts...
Wiltshire Members' Day - Chippenham
Wiltshire Branch of Butterfly Conservation invites everyone to join us at our Members’ Day on Saturday 4th October at Biddestone Village Hall near Chippenham.  A friendly social event with some great ...
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Yep! Set a challenge of trying to get 1000 moth species in the UK this year. Getting close now…

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Finished September with lifer number 90 for the year with mines of Chrysoesthia drurella (Fiery Miner) at Dawlish Warren with Kevin Rylands. Seems to be a very scarce moth in Devon, though presumably it is also under-recorded. Brings me to 968 moth species for the year so far. #teammoth
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Early mines of Ectoedemia erythrogenella (Coast Dot) on the east Devon coast on Sunday - a scarce species on bramble. The egg is clearly visible on the upper surface of the leaf. #teammoth
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Surely chaps with those tasselled fringes?
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It had made a home for itself by folding over the edge of an Alder leaf. I just took the leaf home and kept in a container. Once it had finished feeding, the larva pupated on the side of the container and emerged successfully today. I’ll take it back to the original site tomorrow and release it
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