Help please:
Is this Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana) ? Or something else ?
Pete Atherton.
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Re: Help please
Pete,
It is an example of Carcina quercana. See over at: http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=468
Steve
It is an example of Carcina quercana. See over at: http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=468
Steve
Re: Help please
Regarding Epiphyas postvittana... it first turned up in our garden in 2000, when we trapped 46 during the year. It increased rapidly year on year thereafter to a peak of 1000 trapped in 2005. Since then its become progressively more scarce again, with just 216 last year and only 16 to date in 2011.. though their main flight period for us of August to mid-September is just coming up. Interestingly, we have recorded it from the second week in January right through to the middle of December, and its regularly the first and last species we trap in any year.
Still not that much happening in the trap.. a little better last night than of late, but only The Herald and Bryotropha terrella were new for the year
Steve
Still not that much happening in the trap.. a little better last night than of late, but only The Herald and Bryotropha terrella were new for the year
Steve