1954: Report on Lepidoptera 1953, with notes on Sark and Herm; 1955: Report on Lepidoptera for 



1954, noted that report is a meagre one for reasons not explained; 1956: Report on Lepidoptera for 



1955, an entomologically good season after several years of poor weather conditions hindering not only 

 single-hrooded, but multi-brooded Lepidoptera species; 1957: Report on Lepidoptera for 1956, with 

 note on Alderney; 1958: Report on Lepidoptera for 1957, noted that summer weather failed to measure 

 up to Tourist Bureau specification and report, in consequence, was very brief; 1959: Eupithecia 

 oxycedrata (Rambur) in Guernsey; 1959a: Report on Lepidoptera for 1958, with notes on Herm; 1960: 

 Report on Lepidoptera for 1959, with notes on Herm; 1961: Report on Lepidoptera for 1960, including 

 a note on the continuing decrease in the Lepidoptera populations in the Channel islands, though not so 

 markedly noticeable in Sark; stated that the detrimental effects in Guernsey were due to the increased 

 and indescriminate usage of insecticides, plus the increase of building and general urbanisation of 

 practically the whole island, with the devastation of coastal and common land for sand pits and refuse 

 dumps; 1962: Report on Lepidoptera for 1961, with notes on Sark, Alderney and Herm; 1963: Report 

 on Lepidoptera for 1962, with notes on Sark, Jethou and Herm; 1964: Report on Lepidoptera for 1963, 

 with note on Sark; 1965: Report on Lepidoptera for 1964, with notes on Jethou and Herm; 1966: 

 Report on Lepidoptera for 1965, noted decreasing populations due to increased use of agricultural 

 insecticides and gradual adverse climatic change; 1967: Report on Lepidoptera for 1966, with notes on 

 Jethou and Sark; noted for the year a Robinson light-trap was purchased by the Society and used for the 

 first time that year; also provided a list of butterflies in the Guernsey Bailiwick along with a brief 

 analysis of their status on the islands; 1968: Report on Lepidoptera for 1967, with note on Sark; 1969: 

 Report on Lepidoptera for 1968, with note on Sark when a mercury-vapour lamp was first used on the 

 island; 1970: Report on Lepidoptera for 1969, with note on Sark; 1971: Report on Lepidoptera for 



1970, with note on Sark; contains listing of species collected with m/v light-traps from Alderney in 

 1970 by R. & M.L. Long V. Mendham, also in 1961 by R.B. Walker; 1972: Report on Lepidoptera for 



1971, with note on Sark; 1973: Report on Lepidoptera for 1972, with note on Sark; 1974: Report on 

 Lepidoptera for 1973, with note on Sark; 1975: Report on Lepidoptera for 1974, with note on Sark, 

 also light-trap records compiled by Miss Wendy Angell at the Experimental Station, species identified 

 at the Rothamstead Centre. Some of the material listed was taken in light-traps in 1974 by Wendy 

 Angell, other species were from a collated list compiled by Mr A. Dale in 1971/72; the list provided by 

 Shayer does not distinguish species under dates, however, individual dating for species is derived from 

 list prepared by Margaret Austin for the Societe' Guernesiaise, updated to 1989; 1976: Report on 

 Lepidoptera for 1975, with note on Sark; 1977: Report on Lepidoptera for 1976, with note on Sark. 



C. David: 1964. The Peacock butterfly in Guernsey. 



N. Jee: 1967-2001. 1967: Comments on butterflies and moths; 2001: Newspaper article on some Guernsey 

 hawkmoths. 



A'. Hawkes: 1977. Comments on Channel Islands butterflies and moths (: 67-68), with emphasis on Sark. 

 T.N.D. Peet: 1978-89. 1978: Notes on Guernsey Lepidoptera in 1977 and 1978; 1979: Report on Lepidoptera for 

 1978; 1980: Report on Lepidoptera for 1979; 1981: Report on Lepidoptera for 1980, with note on Sark, 

 noted that 4 mercury-vapour light-traps were operating in the summer in the Bailiwick; 1982: Report on 

 Lepidoptera for 1981, with note on Sark, also records the death of C.J. Shayer; 1983: Report on 

 Lepidoptera for 1982, with records of Microlepidoptera from Guernsey, Herm and Sark by D.J.L. 

 Agassiz; 1984: Report on Lepidoptera for 1983, with note on Sark; 1985: Report on Lepidoptera for 

 1984, with notes on Alderney, Jethou and Herm; 1986: Report on Lepidoptera for 1985, with notes on 

 Sark, Jethou and Herm; 1986a: An early record of Eupithecia phoeniceata (Rambur) in Guernsey, 

 identification corrected from E. oxycedrata (Rambur); 1987: Thera cupressata breeding on Guernsey; 

 1988: An introduction to Guernsey Lepidoptera. noted the inter-insular rivalry of island recorders; 

 1989: Dendrolimus piui (Linnaeus) in Guernsey. 

 P.D.M. Costen: 1986-2003. 1986: Thera cupressata Geyer, first record for the Channel Islands; 1989: 

 Immigrant moths in Guernsey, autumn 1988; 1989a: Thera cupressata in the Channel Islands, an 

 update; 1996: First record of Callopistria juventina (Stoll) in Guernsey; 1997: An account of the 

 Lepidoptera in Costerfs garden at La Broderie, La Claire Mare, St. Pierre du Bois, Guernsey; 2000: 

 Moth records on New Year's Eve, 1999 and New Year's Day, 2000; 2002: Diyobota labecula ab. 

 albomacula in Guernsey, with note on status ; 2002: Megalographa biloba with speculations on its 

 presence in Guernsey; 2003: Acrolepiopsis marcidella (Curtis) and other microlepidoptera on Guernsey 

 and Sark. 



R.A. Austin: 1987-2003. 1987: Report on Lepidoptera for 1986, with notes on Alderney, Herm and Sark; 1988: 

 Report on Lepidoptera for 1987, with notes on Herm and Sark; 1989: Report on Lepidoptera for 1988, 

 with notes on Alderney, Herm, Brecqhou and Sark; 1990: Report on Lepidoptera for 1989, with note 

 on Sark; 1991: Report on Lepidoptera for 1990, with notes on Sark and Herm; 1992: Report on 

 Lepidoptera for 1991, with notes on Sark; 1993: Report on Lepidoptera for 1992, with notes on Herm; 



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