Friday, 6 July 2018

Wormwood and IDs please

Looks like I got a Wormwood this morning - unfortunately I thought it was an odd Shark so I didn't pot it or get a great photo but having looked at the books I don't think there can be any doubt.

I think I have Linaecia phragmitella?

Then I think it is a Slender Brindle

The dark looper looks like a small dark Willow Beauty?

Finally a couple of pics of the Wormwood.

Mark Griffiths, Garsington, Oxford








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  1. Dave Wilton6 July 2018 at 12:30

    Hello Mark, you could try and sound a little more excited - that is indeed Wormwood and it is a very uncommon moth!

    The others are as you say, Limnaecia phragmitella, Slender Brindle and Willow Beauty. I really hope you've got Willow Beauty sorted in your mind now...it is quite an easy moth to recognise and is very common indeed locally.

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  2. Mark Griffiths6 July 2018 at 12:55

    Thanks Dave, the dark Willow beauty was also quite small - that and a Small Tortoiseshell ab. nigra made me think I'd just got a darker Shark. Wish I'd got a better pic! That with the Scarce Silver-lines last week was possibly my best catches so far. Re the wormwood - I wonder if it will also feed on the ornamental silver artemesias - I have a reasonable sized plant of Powys Castle in the garden.

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