Although I nearly missed one as it was so tiny.
The first might be a Gypsonoma
The second I thought is Eudonia mercurella
The last two a dark scop and a tiny moth that I only noticed when it moved.
Mark Griffiths, Garsington, Oxford
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Hi Mark, I think that the Gypsonoma is likely to be G. sociana because of the white face and ground colour (G. dealbana generally has a brownish tinge for both). The Scoparids can be difficult and I wouldn't like to pronounce on your putative E. mercurella (I expect it to be a shade darker and show a clear unbroken white sub-terminal 'X') - while the second one I would be more confident is E. lacustrata (the sub-terminal white 'X' has a black wedge separating the two white arms and the black blobs outside the ante-median line are not joined to it). Is the tiny insect in the same photo really a moth (probably only about 2 mm? which would limit the ID).
ReplyDeleteI agree with Gypsonoma sociana. As John says, dealbana is a little bit more colourful with brown thrown into the mix. That tiny thing is indeed a moth! It is a Nepticulid (the eye-caps are visible) but as to which species...who knows?!
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