This nicely marked micro looks suspiciously similar to an unlikely Scrobipalpa ocellatella, but I guess it's just another one I should have retained for dissection!
Hi Keith, Yes, it certainly would have been preferred if you'd kept it for dissection as your garden would be a new site but, when nicely marked like your example, I think ocellatella is distinctive enough to accept as a record from a decent photo, so please iRecord. The moth could turn up anywhere in our area at the moment, such has been the extent of its expansion/dispersal. I've now had a second much better marked specimen in the garden here and over the past week have had it in three separate woods in north Bucks.
Incidentally, regarding iRecord, verification will resume in a month or two when things have quietened down sufficiently to give me some spare time - in the meantime please keep those records coming!
I should have mentioned that in one of the Bucks parts of Yardley Chase last night I had 16, so I'd expect anyone in the north of the county to be picking them up at the moment!
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Hi Keith,
ReplyDeleteYes, it certainly would have been preferred if you'd kept it for dissection as your garden would be a new site but, when nicely marked like your example, I think ocellatella is distinctive enough to accept as a record from a decent photo, so please iRecord. The moth could turn up anywhere in our area at the moment, such has been the extent of its expansion/dispersal. I've now had a second much better marked specimen in the garden here and over the past week have had it in three separate woods in north Bucks.
Incidentally, regarding iRecord, verification will resume in a month or two when things have quietened down sufficiently to give me some spare time - in the meantime please keep those records coming!
Looking through the rest of the photos I think I had two, and also one last night which I have retained.
DeleteI should have mentioned that in one of the Bucks parts of Yardley Chase last night I had 16, so I'd expect anyone in the north of the county to be picking them up at the moment!
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