My first Orange Sallow. Odd considering the village is full of Lime trees. Also first of the Brown-spot Pinions - three in the trap this morning. Black Rustic yesterday. Mark Griffiths, Garsington, Oxford.
My experience of Orange Sallow is that it doesn't seem to be anywhere near as numerous as the other Sallows even when the food-plant is available. The one exception is when I had 38 to light one night a few years ago on a Chilterns chalk grassland site near Princes Risborough where there's an adjacent grove of limes. There is lime in our garden and elsewhere close by around the village yet I've had years when the moth doesn't show up at all.
Hi Mark,
ReplyDeleteMy experience of Orange Sallow is that it doesn't seem to be anywhere near as numerous as the other Sallows even when the food-plant is available. The one exception is when I had 38 to light one night a few years ago on a Chilterns chalk grassland site near Princes Risborough where there's an adjacent grove of limes. There is lime in our garden and elsewhere close by around the village yet I've had years when the moth doesn't show up at all.
ok, thanks Dave.
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