David Lees carried out some searching for leaf-mines at Burnham Beeches today and was lucky enough to find active mines of Ectoedemia quinquella within "green islands" on a decaying oak leaf. This was a first for Bucks and is a species well worth keeping an eye out for at the moment (there are quite often several mines to a leaf, as in this case). David also found a leaf-edge fold of Parornix carpinella on hornbeam, a rare moth in the county.
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| Ectoedemia quinquella mines on oak, Burnham Beeches 27th October |
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| Ectoedemia quinquella mine, Burnham Beeches 27th October |
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