Having now managed to get my 2021 micro records sorted it turns out that 2021 was my best year for micros in the garden. A total of 249 species were recorded of which 37 were new site records. (Thanks as always to Peter Hall for identifying many of these). A couple of noteworthy records were the Dioryctria species caught in early August and discussed in my post at the time. This has now been confirmed as D. sylvestrella. The record for Elachista albidella caught on 26th July seemed surprising for the location given that it is described as a moth of wet and acid heathland.
Andy Newbold, Sibford Ferris, Oxon.
Hi Andy,
ReplyDeleteI've had Elachista albidella in the garden here too. Looking at its food-plant list (Carex, Calamagrostis, Deschampsia, etc) certainly suggests damp places but I'd be tempted to ignore "acid heathland" as being far too specific! Still a very nice addition to your garden list, though. Here in Bucks we have only two known records and I suspect the situation will be similar in Berks and Oxon.
Thanks for the feedback. It certainly made a change from E. canapennella!
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