Oak Lutestring, Finemere Wood 3rd September |
This moth has a patchy distribution in Bucks. In the south it seems to have a stronghold at Burnham Beeches and there are post-millennium records from other sites in that general area of the county. In mid-Bucks you'd expect it to be in Bernwood Forest where it was certainly recorded in numbers up to the 1980s but I've been trapping there regularly at the right time of year for more than a decade now and have never found it. It continues to hang on at Finemere and is probably in one or two of the other (mostly private) blocks of ancient woodland in this area. I've also seen it at Rammamere Heath on the Bucks/Beds border and in Salcey Forest at the far northern end of the county where it hopefully continues to survive. There have been one or two garden records of it too (not yet in mine, I hasten to add!) so this is a moth to look out for throughout September.
Dave Wilton
Westcott, Bucks
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