Making the most of the sunshine, I carried out a couple of daytime reconnaissance visits to locations which I plan to trap at regularly this year, yesterday at some wetland sites in Milton Keynes and today on chalk grassland near Stokenchurch, Bucks. I got a couple of records for my trouble, a larva of
Endothenia gentianaeana inside the first teasel I opened at the former (checked back at home to make sure it wasn't
E.marginana), plus several active leaf-mines of
Stigmella aurella on bramble at the latter.
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| Larva of Endothenia gentianaeana inside teasel |
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| Larvae of Stigmella aurella mining a leaf of bramble |
Hopefully the warmer (if rather windy) nights this weekend will tempt out a few more adult moths.
Dave Wilton
Westcott, Bucks
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