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Monday, 15 March 2021

One of the Crambinae?

 Whilst cutting back hypericum in my garden last week I disturbed this which looks to me like one of the crambinae grass veneers but an odd time of year isn't it?  I get a lot of agriphila in our garden during the summer so is this a very faded one or something quite different?




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3 comments:

  1. Nigel16 March 2021 at 10:04

    Hi Mary-Anne, I think it's Ypsolopha mucronella.

    Nigel

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  2. Dave Wilton16 March 2021 at 10:42

    Hi Mary-Anne,
    Nigel is correct. Two Ypsolopha species over-winter as adults so can appear this early in the year, one being the highly-variable Y.ustella (a species mainly of oak woodland) while the other is the distinctive Y.mucronella which you have here. Its larvae feed on spindle.

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  3. Mary-Anne Hall17 March 2021 at 08:31

    Thank you very much for solving this puzzle. We have spindle in the garden hedges so this makes perfect sense.

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