Saturday 23 July 2016

A few micros for checking

Before I start sorting last nights catch I wonder if these could be checked please?



 Rather worn bit I feel it ought to be obvious

Very tentative Notocelia rosaecolana?
                                                    

Limnaecia phragmitella?
 
Very tentative Scoparia pyralella. ?

Andy Newbold, Sibford Ferris, Oxon.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Andy,

    Top one too worn to be remotely confident on an already tricky group but my guess would be Eudonia lacustrata.Next one looks like Gypsonoma dealbana. Last one I would say is probably Scoparia ambigualis. 3rd one as you say is phragmitella which seems to stray far from its habitat as I catch it everywhere including my Didcot garden where there is no foodplant anywhere near that I can see although someone may have a well vegetated pond somewhere I guess but used to get it up on the chalk ridge in old garden too. BW, Marc

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  2. Thank you. I can see the G. dealbana now with the flatter back and the shape of the dark area. I must admit these bird-dropping like tortrix do look very similar to the inexperienced.

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