The second image is a back-lit photo showing the larva. In the first image the black area towards the bottom is actually the upper-side view of a vacated mine of Phyllonorycter comparella on the same leaf.
DaveWilton
Westcott, Bucks
A Blog for moth recorders in Bucks, Berks and Oxon
Tuesday 17 September 2019
Phyllocnistis xenia
While releasing last night's garden moths down the road at Woodham, Bucks this afternoon I noticed a number of very young White Poplar shoots adjacent to some mature trees. The saplings were covered in active upper surface 'snail-trail' mines of the nationally scarce species Phyllocnistis xenia.
The second image is a back-lit photo showing the larva. In the first image the black area towards the bottom is actually the upper-side view of a vacated mine of Phyllonorycter comparella on the same leaf.
DaveWilton
Westcott, Bucks
The second image is a back-lit photo showing the larva. In the first image the black area towards the bottom is actually the upper-side view of a vacated mine of Phyllonorycter comparella on the same leaf.
DaveWilton
Westcott, Bucks
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