Pheromone success - in February?!

Spurred on by one or two recent reports from elsewhere in the country of Pammene giganteana flying already, I extracted the MOL pheromone lure from the freezer this afternoon and took it with me to Lapland Farm Meadows near Rushbeds, Bucks where it was left in a trap suspended under a couple of hedgerow oaks from 2.30pm while I did some searching for Brown Hairstreak eggs.  The MOL lure (for Grapholita molesta) is one of a handful of lures to which giganteana is known to be attracted.  Sure enough, by the time I returned to the same spot an hour later the little chap below was sitting in the trap.

Pammene giganteana, Lapland Farm Meadows 20th February

Dave Wilton Westcott, Bucks