On September 1st 2018, we trapped a single of the Pyralid Duponchelia fovealis at MV light in our Market Warsop garden.

Duponchelia fovealis is an adventive species, still with relatively few UK records. Although a migrant species, most UK records are believed the result of accidental importation on cut flowers, or house plants from southern Europe.

We have recorded this moth twice, finding the county's first ever record freshly emerged on the skirting board of a room in a Mansfield nursing home on October 14th 2011. One was also trapped by Phil Lee at Misterton in 2013.

On July 23rd, we trapped a specimen of the attractively marked Gold Spangle Autographa bractea ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775).

Gold Spangle is a moth of north-western parts of the UK, but is regarded as a migrant to southern and eastern counties. In Nottinghamshire, it occurs either as a rare wanderer from populations in the north-west of the UK, or possibly as a migrant. The county recorder currently regards it as a 'sporadic resident'.

But in view of two moths occurring at seperate sites on the same date in July 2013, and these at the time being the first in Nottinghamshire since 1993, then it seems to us that any Gold Spangle in the county could just as likely be of continental origin.