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29th Sept 2023 - Clifden Nonpareil

Taking into account the recent upsurge in UK records of this one time mythical beast of a moth, I have taken to keeping a rather oversized pot in the hopes that one of these things might appear in the garden and tonight was the night. I got home after a silly o'clock 15 miles bike ride, had a cuppa then popped out to recheck the two garden moth traps about 1.30 am when I found this sitting inside the funnel of one of the two 125 watt MV's. It darn near took my breathe away. It's not in perfect condition, it arriving so late in the flight season but as they say 'beggars can't be choosers' and seeing as it's taken me a quarter of a century to catch one here, well I'm none too bothered. I have seen one before, about five years or so again, caught by a mate locally. This would be considered as a migrant here in our part of the world.