A big thankyou to all those who attended the Hempton Marsh moth day and ringing demonstration today, a total of 50 moth species were caught in the reserve traps and there were more to see from other enthusiasts. Ringing highlights were a juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker and a Chiffchaff ringed at the site in 2023.

Moth list

5 Fen Wainscot
6 Smoky Wainscot
1 Rustic
5 Mother of Pearl
3 Clouded Border
1 Common Carpet
3 Bee Moth
8 Bird Cherry Ermine
1 Barred Straw
10 Poplar Hawk
3 Cnephasia sp.
1 Southern Wainscot
28 Dingy Footman
3 Chilo phragmitella
3 Bordered Beauty
5 Drinker
2 Willow Ermine
1 Ringed China-Mark
1 Spectacle
2 Dunbar
1 Scoparia ambigualis
1 Celypha lacunana
4 Pale Prominent
1 Small Magpie
2 Shaded Broad-bar
1 Red Twin-spot Carpet
1 Brachmia blandella
4 Single Dotted Wave
3 Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
1 Garden Grass Moth
1 Common Pug
1 Round-winged Muslin
5 Beautiful China-Mark
4 Water Mint Straw
1 Dawrf Cream Wave
5 Large Emerald
1 Yellow Tail
2 Riband Wave
1 Ruby Tiger
5 Nut-tree Tussock
1 Common Wave
1 Schoenobius gigantella
1 Cyclamen Tortrix
1 Flame Carpet
1 Coxcomb Prominent
1 Common White Wave
2 Current Pug
1 Scalloped Tortrix
1 Nut Bud Moth
1 Hawthorn Tip Moth