A communication from Cholsey's foremost moth expert.
A first for Cholsey.
"At the weekend I caught a moth that I had never seen before.
The Toadflax Brocade is a moth until recently as only been
recorded in Britain along the south coast. Therefore a suspected immigrant.
The county recorder has never seen one and the foremost expert
in Berkshire has never seen one in Britain.
Even more amazing is that by pure chance I have discovered
that a woman with the surname Charley also caught one at the weekend, and she apparently
lives in Cholsey!"
Toadflax Brocade - A resident species colonizing Englands south-east and central southern coasts, first found around 1950 and it frequents mainly shingle beaches. (courtesy Tony Raynor)
Boris the Spider. Not ID'd yet (probably female). (courtesy Loren)
Every year for several years now I find the larvae of Toadflax Brocade in my garden on the Purple Toadflax but have yet to see the moth itself. I'm in Middx, outer London.
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