Nepticulid sp, Westcott 9th May |
Bucculatrix ulmella, Westcott 9th May |
Green Carpet was active in the garden during the daytime yesterday, another new addition to the year-list, while I forgot to mention that on Friday, while sipping our G&Ts in the early evening sunshine, we had a fly-by from a white female Muslin Moth. She settled well above head height in one of our birches but by the time I'd got the ladder out to try and pot her up she'd disappeared. A shame as that was a first for the garden, although I have had a couple of encounters in local woodland in previous years. Being daytime flyers they are not seen very often at all.
Yesterday evening's local dog-walk produced 20+ of whatever the anonymous-looking Dichrorampha species it is that's flying around here at the moment, plus further examples of Glyphipterix simpliciella & Aethes smeathmanniana. I also saw my first Small Yellow Underwing of the year and the smart tortrix below which needs checking but I think will prove to be Epiblema cirsiana as it was associated with thistles.
Probable Epiblema cirsiana, Westcott 9th May |
Dave Wilton
Westcott, Bucks
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