What's flying tonight?

This page allows you to see what moths have previously been recorded in Suffolk as adults at a particular time of year. This is intended to give a rough indication of what may be on the wing and not a definitive list of recorded dates (particularly earliest and latest dates). Only records that have been submitted with a precise date are included within the dataset, so records that have been submitted with dates like '12-June-2002 to 16-June-2002' or '2002' are omitted.

The flight data is based on what is flying in a particular week of the year. So what will be shown as flying for a particular time of year is actually the moths that have been recorded flying in the week of the year that the specified date lies in. For example, the 17th August 2004 lies in the 34th week of the year. Confused? - just try it out and hopefully it will become clear.

In the table of results below the 'Total records' column specifies the number of records of that species in the dataset. The 'Weekly Record Total' gives the number of records of that species recorded in the specified week. The 'Percentage of records' column indicates the percentage of records that have been recorded in this week. Species are initially ordered by 'Weekly Record Total' as this gives preference to the more commonly recorded species for that week.

Clicking the and buttons either side of the results table title will show the species lists for the previous and next week respectively.

A wide range of date formats are accepted in the text box below, try things like 20-Mar-2004 or 6/04/04 or 1 07 04


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Week 6 (8-Feb-2010 to 15-Feb-2010)

Species total : 30

B & FScientific nameVernacular name Total
records
Weekly
record
total
Percentage
of
records
1926Phigalia pilosariaPale Brindled Beauty1704727
1932Agriopis leucophaeariaSpring Usher782734
2258Conistra vacciniiChestnut600254
1663Alsophila aesculariaMarch Moth380143
1960Theria primariaEarly Moth591423
1025Tortricodes alternella951111
1934Agriopis marginariaDotted Border298113
0688Agonopterix heracliana15774
2256Eupsilia transversaSatellite28262
0461Ypsolopha ustella4336
1799Operophtera brumataWinter Moth31530
2187Orthosia cerasiCommon Quaker97530
2190Orthosia gothicaHebrew Character129330
2259Conistra ligulaDark Chestnut10632
0705Agonopterix umbellana4724
1045Acleris notana2926
1051Acleris logiana2528
1524Emmelina monodactyla64620
0288Caloptilia stigmatella4512
0697Agonopterix arenella14510
0714Agonopterix yeatiana2150
1053Acleris hastiana6911
1055Acleris hyemana6116
1883Acasis viretataYellow-barred Brindle16910
1925Apocheima hispidariaSmall Brindled Beauty4312
1930Biston stratariaOak Beauty15210
1935Erannis defoliariaMottled Umber23710
2013Ptilophora plumigeraPlumed Prominent1516
2179Panolis flammeaPine Beauty15810
2243Xylocampa areolaEarly Grey54510