Check those Nettle-taps

In Bucks there are only a handful of records from five sites for Prochoreutis myllerana and there's a good chance it is being overlooked amongst the very common Nettle-taps (Anthophila fabriciana), so please keep an eye out for it.  Having had the moth to light in Bernwood Forest earlier in the week, I found another yesterday during a daytime butterfly transect at Finemere Wood which is another new site for it in the county.  This one was resting on a flower-head of yarrow.

Prochoreutis myllerana, Finemere Wood 30th August

Dave Wilton
Westcott, Bucks