The flood of new arrivals in the garden here at
Westcott reduced to a trickle over the past two nights, Tuesday bringing just
Chrysoteuchia culmella and Beautiful Hook-tip while last night saw
Narycia duplicella, Small Elephant Hawk-moth, a probable (and early) Uncertain and Green Silver-lines. Another Puss Moth turned up too (a male this time), a moth I don't see in the garden at all frequently. The little psychid
Narycia duplicella seems to have become established here over the past few years and is now a garden regular, the only one from that family which has made it on to the site list. Despite being a common moth the Green Silver-lines is only the second example to have visited the garden trap, the first being two years ago.
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| Narycia duplicella, Westcott 30th May |
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| Green Silver-lines, Westcott 30th May |
This evening I checked our supply of hedge woundwort and was pleased to find two examples of the tortrix
Endothenia nigricostana enjoying the sunshine. It has been an annual here since 2011 and undoubtedly breeds on these plants in the garden, keeping company with our many Woundwort Shield-bugs. While out looking at some poplar trunks near
Greatmoor, Bucks earlier this afternoon the only thing of interest proved to be a smart fully-grown White Satin caterpillar.
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| Endothenia nigricostana, Westcott 31st May |
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| White Satin larva, Greatmoor 31st May |
Dave Wilton
Westcott, Bucks
Pangs of envy for the Narycia, Dave.A pretty nice moth for the garden, I would say.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting that you don't see more Green Silver-lines. I had 8 here last year between 6th and 24th June. This year I had one on 21st May and 2 on 26th. I don't know if this is unusual for a garden trap. There is a row of mature oaks a couple of hundred yards from the garden.
ReplyDeleteWe do have plenty of oak within a kilometre or two of the village but I'm only aware of a couple of trees (one of them quite youthful) within metres of the garden - it seems to be the only major tree species which we are a bit short of locally!
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