Thursday, 8 August 2019

Some stuff for id help...

Having run traps in my garden, the burial park and the museum this week with varying degrees of success, I have a few id requests.

First from my garden:


Second, from the burial park and not quite matching a lot of things in my book:


And finally from the museum farm:

 Is this Calybites phasianipennella?
 ?Cochylis 
Just an Emmelina monodactyla or something more interesting?

Dave Morris
Seer Green & Chalfont St Giles

2 comments:

  1. Hi Dave,

    The first looks like a worn Bryotropha affinis, the second is a male Parapoynx stratiotata (Ringed China-mark - think you should have got that one!), I think you are correct with the third although that's not the best of angles, while the fourth is Cochylimorpha straminea so you were in the right area. I too think monodactyla for the plume, while the last one looks like Blastobasis adustella which is around in large numbers at the moment.

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  2. Thanks Dave. Now I'm "at" Ringed China Mark I can see photos online which match but missed it in the book probably because of the position it's depicted in! I have retained the Calybites so may try for a better angle if it doesn't fly off.
    I've had many B. adustella in the traps recently; most I can get but I have noticed how variable they can be. Maybe this one struck me as even more so :)

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