Following on from Martin Harvey's post below about caterpillars found on beech yesterday, we did indeed record a good selection of lepidoptera leaf-mines (along with numerous other invertebrates of various life stages) even though Penn Wood certainly isn't the most diverse woodland in the county, has little in the way of under-storey and contains rather too many non-native species! A full list has yet to be compiled but illustrated below is a small selection from those mines which I brought home to photograph for one reason or another.
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| Stigmella microtheriella mines, Penn Wood 19th October |
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| Stigmella microtheriella mines, Penn Wood 19th October |
The above was obviously a highly favoured hazel leaf when the female moth came to lay her eggs. I wonder if these two larvae have a chat on their way past each other?! Shown below are an active mine on hawthorn and a vacated mine on rowan.
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| Stigmella perpygmaeella mine, Penn Wood 19th October |
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| Stigmella nylandriella mine, Penn Wood 19th October |
Dave Wilton
Westcott, Bucks
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