The catch of the year?

 Arfon Williams made an extraordinary catch on Monday, 28.10.24 with multiples of various rare migrant moths on a night when he `did n`t expect much`!

He caught 9 Palpita vitrealis, 3 Radford`s flame shoulders, 2 scarce bordered straws, 1 delicate, 3 Spoladea recurvalis and 10 rusty dot pearls! An amazing catch. All caught in actinic traps, rather than the MV trap in his garden north of Ffarmers in N. Carmarthenshire.

                                               Above: a general shot of some of his catch.

                                                 Above: Radford`s flame shoulders

                                                      Above: his haul of Palpita...

                                                            Above: Spoladea recurvalis

(I too trapped that night - and had only six moths in my trap, though at least they were of six different (common) species!).