Goat Moth Cossus cossus (Linnaeus, 1758) is one moth which continues to elude most of the county's moth trappers. Few have ever seen it in the county and since being refound here in 2013, there have been few other records.

Always an extremely rare moth in Nottinghamshire, all recent records have come  from a handful of sites in the far north of the county. The latest one to turn up, was a pristine male, which was trapped by Ian Hunt and Melanie Newman, of the Lound Moth Group on June 5th 2019. Despite a growing site species list, it is doubtful if the addition of Goat Moth was ever thought likely, especially in view of the moths current status. It is believed that an attempt is to be made, to search for signs of larval activity in the immediate area where the moth was trapped.

An unusual series of Light Knot Grass Acronicta menyanthidis (Esper, 1798) records, took place at the end of May 2019. Of the records made public via social media, were two from just over the county border in South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

Then we were contacted by Pete Leonard from Leicestershire, informing us of one he'd trapped at Bottesford on May 25th. Frustratingly this was just out of VC56, but a few days later, Pete informed us of a Nottinghamshire record from the same night.

It was recorded by Mike Hill and Tom Shields, who were running a trap at Netherfield Ash Lagoons for the Netherfield Wildlife Group on May 24th and is the first Nottinghamshire record since the publication of Carr's book in 1916. Light Knot Grass is a northern species, typically of damp heathland and moorland.