A real surprise in the garden trap this morning, a Delicate Mythimna vitellina.
The first one I've had in the garden in over 20 years of trapping.
Presumably this is a migrant? the only other potential migrants last night were 1 Silver Y Autographa gamma and 1 Diamond-back Moth Plutella xylostella.
Definitely worth putting that trap out!
Neil Fletcher
Walter's Ash, VC24
Hello Neil,
ReplyDeleteThere are 20 or so post-millennium records for Delicate in Bucks so it isn't one of the rarest migrant species to the county. Maybe you've just been unlucky until now! Two appeared here at Westcott over the past week and I've seen quite a few reports of it from elsewhere so there would seem to have been some recent immigration, although there have also been suggestions that the moth may now be resident in parts of the south-east..