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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It all started so well, warm & still with the 1st moth in this smart Pearly Underwing, then the moon came up & the bats arrived (1 narrowly missed my head!), more migrants with 16 S M Willow, 4 P vitrealis & 3 Western Conifer Seed Bug also 11 Clancy's R, 5 L album W, Wax M & Red-line Quaker NFY

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of my Autumn highlights is the first flowers of Hedychium maximum (early this year!)

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great to see 2 Mullein Wave on the night of 27/9 after an absence of a few years, with 2 more Plumed Fan-foot I assume they are well established locally, also 3 more Feathered Brindle, 7 L-album W, 6 Small Mottled Willow & down to 7 Clancy's Rustic #teammoth

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Groundhog night + on 25/9, 1 NFY Vestal, another Plumed Fan-foot, C plebejana, 3 Delicate, 8 L-album W, 2 P vitrealis, 3 Feathered Brindle & a new record 13 Clancy's Rustic, also some 2nd brooders, Swallowtail, Yellow-tail & Least carpet #teammoth

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lots of passion in the garden today with 4 varieties of Passiflora in bloom - P. 'Marijke', P. 'Snow Queen', P. x belotii & P. 'Byte' #ukgardening 🌱

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The new normal here in Kessingland last night, Plumed Fan-foot (got me over excited till I realised what it was!), 8 L-album Wainscot, 5 Clancy's R, Delicate, 3 Feathered Brindle & Lesser Wax Moth, 2 migrants - Palpita vitrealis & Oncocera semirubella #teammoth

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I believe this hairy beast (to my moth light) is Dexia rustica, a tachinid I need more of as it's a parasite of Cockchafers (that I have a surplus of!). Lots of aerial action over the garden today with buzzards & sparrowhawks displaying, a red kite very low & a spitfire did a victory roll + 2 HbHm

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A bit Depressariinae last night (11/9) with a new moth Depressaria badiella & what is probably a worn Agonopterix ocellana, otherwise just a Scarce Bordered Straw & 2 Clancy's Rustic NFY #teammoth

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The only migrant of note last night was a bit of a pleb (Crocidosema plebejana), best a fine Bloxworth Snout, a late Nyctegretis lineana, Feathered Ranunculus NFY, 6 Delicate & 3 Ancylosis oblitella #teammoth

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

2 Mexicans in the garden that have enjoyed this summer are the well named Bessera elegans & Tigridia orthantha (which after languishing in the ground for 4 years had over 20 flowers after being potted up), new this year are Salvia oxyphora from Bolivia & the lemon zest scented Hedychium corelli

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's a good article online from PNAS (Anti-bat ultrasound production in moths is globally and phylogenetically widespread) it seems Noctuidae do it but they don't know how!

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Here in the UK its called Silver-striped Hawk-moth, as its foodplants are not native I presume it arrived after colonisation

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

After being corrupted by your posts had my 3rd flower of Belotii today, love that unique scent of Mcvities ginger cake!

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Still fairly quiet here in Kessingland, the usual common migrants (best Convolvulus Hm on the ginger), 7 Ancylosis oblitella a new record, the Large & BB yellow UWs starting to wake up, pics of Blackneck NFY, Tawny Wave, A bundle of Coast Darts & Beautiful Marbled from 13th

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A slow night (to windy) saved by my 2nd Striped Hawk-moth, also pic of Gypsy Moth by torchlight & Coleophora versurella for lovers of the small & obscure, NFY was a brief visit from a Clouded Yellow during the day

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

One of two Bordered Straw on my Allium nutans last night #teammoth

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A few blooms from the garden, I love the smell of Giant Burmese Honeysuckle in the morning, Hedychium deceptum, 10 types of Agapanthus & a Humming-bird Hawk-moth at Salvia Cerro Potosi. #UKgardening

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A smart little new moth last night, Cydia cosmophorana with a record 17 Small Mottled Willow & a Palpita vitrealis, best of the locals 3 Coleophora clypeiferella, 3 Pima boisduvaliella, Ethmia quadrillella, 2 Nyctegretis lineana & a Coast Dart #teammoth

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Thats a Common Rustic agg (prob Lesser) Dot moth much bigger

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

how about a very worn Epinotia rubiginosana ?

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Had my 2nd a few weeks ago (nearest Birch Polypore over a mile away), sods to photograph (won't stop moving!). bluesky says your writing in Portuguese! (must be to do with Latin names)

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Your LBBYU has a very Langmaid,s look about it

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A record 5 Herald on the sugar last night (with 2 Old Lady), only other moths of note Clavigesta sylvestrana, Shaded Fan-foot & a Small Mottled Willow

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Their on the move, Kessingland Suffolk Friday night

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

A strange lack of common migrants last night, best C verellus & E delunella + 1 RDP & lots of Langmaid,s YU also 3 Delicate that looked very local! , loads of beach speciality's

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Anyone familiar with Blastobasis glandulella (& its UK status), last night in Kessingland. @neilsmothman.bsky.social

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I think the 1st Franklin's Gull may be slightly devalued but sapsucker still the business

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I see De Passifloratuin use Snow Queen for their grafting stock

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Bee-eater back!, appeared from & disappeared back to the vicinity of Sea View holiday camp off green lane @lowestoftlizards.bsky.social

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Didn't seem to be in a hurry went N then S & back N over 15mins (had a primary missing)

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Quality garden tick, Bee-eater Kessingland Beach last seen heading north

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Nice to complete the Hyles set this morning, Striped Hawk-moth in my Kessingland garden. #teammoth

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hi, have you seen the latest video from All the fruit on YouTube (in Maurizio Vecchia,s garden)

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Second gen of B u from Aug (they are a bit worse for wear!)

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Argyresthia cupressella, A trifasciata, Bucculatrix ulmella ?

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Despite 10+ Painted Lady, 2 Red Admiral & a Humming-bird H-m in the garden yesterday the only migrants overnight were a few Diamondbacks, but any night with a Star-wort can't be bad!

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

1st trap of the year produced a lifer, Great Prominent (scarce in N.E. Suffolk) with 2 Diamond-back & a Silver Y also at least 10 Painted Lady heading north through the garden

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

They serenaded us to sleep every night at our hotel in Nuwara Eliya

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

One I managed to dip although heard several (the perils of not using guides), good excuse to go back to Kitulgala (superb place), did you see Serendib there?

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The only tacsonia I have seen in the wild (that looked just like yours) was below Papallacta pass (Ecuador) at c10,000ft in driving sleet & it was bloody freezing

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Hesperantha coccinea 'Eric's Early', starts in august & still going strong + Salvia haenkei, the best its looked all summer but not for much longer! (tender) #ukGardening 🌱

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

A new micro in the garden this year were 3 Chionodes distinctella, though it seems to be incredibly variable & could be fumatella (esp. No. 2), opinions welcome!. Also new was Great green Bush-cricket

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Though the explosive dehiscence is quite vicious if you get too close (I used to work in a greenhouse to a chorus of seeds pinging off the glass!)

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I also have the round stones, the old glass fishing float & lots of neat driftwood but I am only 50 miles from Cambridge

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

+ a Resurrection Plant (Selaginella lepidophylla)

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Allan Eaton @aceaton.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Dig that crazy Hawaiian Beet Webworm (the American common name is much more entertaining !)

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