After most nights this month with counts of species in the mid-twenties, suddenly Friday night went mad in the garden with 180 moths of 49 species, including this micro below which I am fairly confident is Cryptoblabes bistriga. If so, per the atlas, it seems to be not very often recorded in NW Bucks--up to 2022 at least--with just one record from 2010.
Hello Phil,
ReplyDeleteNice one. Not really a garden species but it does sometimes wander away from oak woodland. The lack of records from your part of the world is probably more to do with a general lack of recording in that area, which you seem to be doing your best to remedy! I remember having it in Whitfield Wood in 2010 before the Forestry Commission sold off the site into private hands, so it is quite possibly in the woods to the north of Stowe NT as well.
Thanks Dave. I suspect there's quite a lot still to be discovered up here!
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