Very pleased indeed.
I was feeling a bit left out because the other two main moth trappers on the Peninsula had both hit the jackpot this year with Mike having a Druid and a couple of Eastern Bordered Straws and Derek had the Maize Wainscot so now I'm in the club- although I did need the local gurus to identify it for me! Thanks guys!
The moth was caught on 13th August, a very busy night for migrants and dispersives during the fifth heat wave HERE.
This is the first for Sussex (both West and East) and a new addition to the Little Oak Lodge hall of fame which includes the 2nd Echium Stilt for West Sussex HERE and the first Pretty white-barred for West Sussex HERE. Good to be making a little bit of local history.
Samphire Straw, Aethes bilbaensis (above and below)
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