Georgie Wightman-Smith
My total:
2949
Year I started recording:
2020
Last updated on:
23rd November, 2023
About me:
Been interested in nature from a very young age, by chance purchasing a bird book in 2017 kicked off my interest in birds, and insects followed soon after. Got a moth trap in 2020, and all through lockdown focussed on insects in my garden. I soon started to meet many people who I've learned loads from, and now my main passions are beetles and moths.
Age:
16
My bogey species:
Spring Usher, Heart and Club, Dark Marbled Carpet, Dipper, Hen Harrier, Bewicks Swan, Fallow Deer.
My most wanted:
Convolvulus Hawkmoth, Stag Beetle, Deaths Head Hawkmoth, Oleander Hawkmoth, Swallowtail, White tailed Eagle, Golden Eagle, Great Grey Shrike, Rose Chafer
My grippers:
Brown Shrike, Gypsy Moth(first for yorkshire), Katiannidae genus Nov sp Nov 1 and Katiannidae genus Nov sp Nov 2 beaten from Ivy on 27/12/2020, Katianna nr schoetti beaten from grass on 15/02/2021, Black browed Albatross at Bempton 04/07/2021. Red tipped Cudweed on 31/07/2021. Yponomeuta irorrella on 30/07/2021, 4th for Suffolk. Beautiful Marbled, trapped at Spurn on 11/09/2021, Dinotrema propodeale, 3rd for Britain in my garden on 25/08/2021, Long-toed Stint, St Aidans, 11/10/2021, Sallow Nycteoline, trapped at Anglers Country Park 04/09/2022. New for Britain. Pallid Swift, self found at spurn on 24/10/2022.
Latest addition:
Six-belted Clearwing, Phylus coryli, Epinotia rubiginosana, Notocelia trimaculana, Tipula unca, Coleophora deauratella, Beautiful Snout, Schoenobius gigantella, Beris vallata, Idiocerus laminatus, Megaloceroea recticornis, Stathmopoda pedella, Roseate Tern, Lilac Beauty, Lyme Grass, Long-eared Owl, Temmincks Stint, Star Wort.
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