I didn't recognise a pug species with distinguishing marks pictured below. It had a ws of 18mm and looked most like Triple Spotted Pug. The first is a small (5mm total length) moth with striking silver / white markings and the second query I can only describe as a horizontal Crassa Unitella with different shaped wings - more like a Lampronia?
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Hello Andrew, not really sure about the top one without a better picture (there are one or two possibilities with those silvery spots, of which one of the Elachistids is perhaps the most likely). The next I think is just a tired Crassa unitella not sitting as it usually does with its "tail in the air", while the pug I think looks like either Slender or Maple (the general ground colour is more suggestive of Slender to me). Unusually, I don't recall having seen a definite Slender Pug anywhere yet this year - could be in a pot awaiting dissection though! - while Maple has just started to appear in the garden here.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave
ReplyDeleteThe pug did'nt make it therefore allowing closer inspection and Slender Pug it is. my second it seems of the year.