Both Painted Lady and Hummingbird Hawkmoth looked to more numerous and widely distributed today than at any time since both started to show up in small numbers a couple of weeks ago.
Overnight immigrant moth totals at the Obs included 10 Diamond-back Moth, 8 each of Rusty-dot Pearl and Silver Y, 2 Rush Veneer and singles of Pine Hawkmoth and Small Mottled Willow.
A couple of the day-flying moths on the wing at the Bill in recent days - Burnet Companion and Mother Shipton © Ken Dolbear:
