News from the Dewberry Hill site (Rad on Trent)

We were highly delighted to discover on Sunday morning not one, but two very large and impressive moths in one of the moth traps. This species is the Clifden Nonpareil, sometimes referred to as the Blue Underwing. The beautiful blue colouring is revealed as the moth becomes agitated and gets ready for flight. Once a resident in Kent and Norfolk earlier in the twentieth century, this moth became extinct as a breeding species and has since been considered a scarce migrant though there have been increased sightings in more recent years, but only a handful recorded to date in Nottinghamshire. The two we found may possibly be a male and female.
 
Many thanks once again to Paul Dulwich for organising our surveys and we hope to carry this on next year
 
Phil Taylor