Silver Y moths on the way north? (1 Viewer)

[Allen S. Moore]

I was looking at the website of the Spanish newspaper El Pais today and it mentions that there is a "cloud" of Silver Y moths (Autographa gamma) in Madrid. The article also refers to large numbers in 1997 which, I guess, was the year that there were large numbers of the species in the Isle of Man and, presumably, elsewhere in the British Isles. Look out for them!

This, I hope, is a link to the article in El Pais:

http://elpais.com/ccaa/2013/06/14/madrid/1371211000_881335.html

 

[honeym]

Hi Allen

The only problem is that it seems that the media worldwide finds it almost impossible to get a story correct. The moths in the images are Large Yellow Underwings Noctua pronuba.

They often emerge in large numbers and 'migrate' into the cooler hilly areas and mountains where they spend the heat of the summer in caves, etc. I can't recall if it was the same species but years ago there was a report of moths stopping a football match in Spain - they covered the floodlights so much that it was too dark to play!

We need more moths in those sort of numbers!!

Martin

 

[Allen S. Moore]

Hi Allen

The only problem is that it seems that the media worldwide finds it almost impossible to get a story correct. The moths in the images are Large Yellow Underwings Noctua pronuba.

I wondered why they looked different!