With the prospects of a mild night on the 12th October, this presented an ideal opportunity to put the moth trap on. With lots of migrant moths being discovered in Southern England, the South West & Isles of Scilly, I chanced a good moth. You can imagine my excitement when I checked the trap at 6:30am on the 13th and discovered an Udea ferrugalis or Rusty Dot Pearl. This was indeed a rare migrant for my county of Derbyshire. The last time I trapped one was a number of years ago when there was another good passage of migrant moths. […]