Very nice, Peter. The Small Black Arches is probably the best of the bunch but you are so close to Bernwood that a wanderer from the colony there must be overdue for your garden. By co-incidence the first Bucks record of Ethmia dodecea was also from Bernwood (in 2010) but its spread has mainly been through the Chilterns. However, this year I had records in the Bucks part of Yardley Chase, right on the border with Northants, so it could turn up anywhere in the county now. Delicate is a very nice migrant - pity it wasn't a Striped Hawk-moth though!
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Very nice, Peter. The Small Black Arches is probably the best of the bunch but you are so close to Bernwood that a wanderer from the colony there must be overdue for your garden. By co-incidence the first Bucks record of Ethmia dodecea was also from Bernwood (in 2010) but its spread has mainly been through the Chilterns. However, this year I had records in the Bucks part of Yardley Chase, right on the border with Northants, so it could turn up anywhere in the county now. Delicate is a very nice migrant - pity it wasn't a Striped Hawk-moth though!
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