Some may recall my protracted and highly frustrating wait to catch a Clifden nonpareil a few years back, in spite of several other moth trappers having success locally. The same applied to Radford`s flame shoulder, of which a lot have been caught in southern Britain in recent months including here in Carmarthenshire, where Arfon Williams in particular has been spectacularly successful with his north Carmarthenshire catches, including the afore-mentioned Radford`s flame shoulders.
Whatever, I was lucky last night (5th November), with a slightly worn, but instantly recognisable, one awaiting me this morning in my actinic trap. There were other migrants also present.
Arfon tells me that last night, in or near his trap near Ffarmers, he also (ie as well as some more regular migrants) had another Spoladea recurvalis and Diasemiopsis ramburialis, the latter being found hidden in a nook within the porch where the trap had been placed.
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