General finds
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 1:01 pm
Have not done much in the rain the last few days but have finally got round to recording some finds.
Went for a walk around our local field on the 27th September. Lots of nettle tap moths flying in the hedges. Found two Drinker moth larva. One sun bathing on an elm leaf the other on convolvulus.
Managed to find Stigmella samiatella and Phyllonorycter messaniella mines on sweet chestnut. An old pear tree had Leucoptera malifoliella and stigmella oxycannnthella mines. Beech leaves showed several Stigmella tityrella and hemarhytella mines and creased leaves from Phyllonorycter species either messaniella or maestingella we have both in our area.
A crack willow sapling had a larva in a leaf roll. Nearest we can get is perhaps and Agonopterix species. Can anyone help identify it. We will try to breed it through. Bob & Helen
Went for a walk around our local field on the 27th September. Lots of nettle tap moths flying in the hedges. Found two Drinker moth larva. One sun bathing on an elm leaf the other on convolvulus.
Managed to find Stigmella samiatella and Phyllonorycter messaniella mines on sweet chestnut. An old pear tree had Leucoptera malifoliella and stigmella oxycannnthella mines. Beech leaves showed several Stigmella tityrella and hemarhytella mines and creased leaves from Phyllonorycter species either messaniella or maestingella we have both in our area.
A crack willow sapling had a larva in a leaf roll. Nearest we can get is perhaps and Agonopterix species. Can anyone help identify it. We will try to breed it through. Bob & Helen