Friday 16 February 2018

Lackey eggs

A return visit to Lapland Farm this afternoon produced another fairly typical find while searching blackthorn for Brown Hairstreak eggs, this being a Lackey "ring".  The female moth lays her batch of whitish eggs in a black gunge which glues them to a stem of the food-plant for over-wintering, making them look rather like a piece of snake-skin.

Lackey eggs, Lapland Farm 16th February

Dave Wilton
Westcott, Bucks 

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