Monday 30 May 2016

Unidentified moth from my kitchen ceiling

Would appreciate some help to identify this, taken in my kitchen in Culham yesterday.  It's about 1cm long.  It's similar to a Nettle Tap, but is clearly different.

3 comments:

  1. Have you been down the Garden Centre Will? I looks like Duponchelia fovealis, which is an adventive.

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  2. I agree, Duponchelia fovealis, a pest species that gets imported every now and again. There was a time when sightings needed to be passed to DEFRA's Plant Health people, not sure if that's still the case.

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  3. Thanks Peter and Dave. A foreign import didn't occur to me and I was a bit bewildered that something so distinctive didn't feature in any of my books. I checked DEFRA's website and they seem reasonably relaxed about Duponchelia.

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