Over 85 species to sift through and rewarded with four new micros for the garden:
[416] Ectoedemia heringella
[417] Apple Leaf Miner
[418] Gypsonoma sociana
[419] Notocelia rosaecolana
A minuscule moth at the bottom of the trap caused me to wander back and forth cluelessly trying to work out what family it was from never mind species. Thanks to Rob Partridge for the identification, it looks like it is Ectoedemia heringella (New Holm-Oak Pigmy). This species was first discovered in 2002 and has since spread substantially; even so it is the leaf mines that are commonly recorded not the adult.
Also tiny was this Apple Leaf Miner (shocking photo I know). I had a run of several records of this species in 2013 and 2014 but not since.
Gypsonoma sociana is, for a black and white tortrix, reasonably distinctive:
I can't say the same for various Notocelia / Epiblema species however. A second opinion on this one though has allowed me to claim N. rosaecolana:
I don't record many Catoptria pinella, the smartest of the grass moths that occur here:
Hypsopygia glaucinalis is also annual in very small numbers:
While scoparids are generally a nightmare and unfortunately quite abundant right now (!). This one looks good for the common Eudonia mercurella:
The fourth Cochylis of the year appeared; this is the most regular species here - C.hybridella:
[416] Ectoedemia heringella
[417] Apple Leaf Miner
[418] Gypsonoma sociana
[419] Notocelia rosaecolana
A minuscule moth at the bottom of the trap caused me to wander back and forth cluelessly trying to work out what family it was from never mind species. Thanks to Rob Partridge for the identification, it looks like it is Ectoedemia heringella (New Holm-Oak Pigmy). This species was first discovered in 2002 and has since spread substantially; even so it is the leaf mines that are commonly recorded not the adult.
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| Ectoedemia heringella |
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| Apple Leaf Miner Lyonetia clerkella |
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| Gypsonoma sociana |
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| Notocelia rosaecolana |
I don't record many Catoptria pinella, the smartest of the grass moths that occur here:
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| Catoptria pinella |
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| Hypsopygia glaucinalis |
While scoparids are generally a nightmare and unfortunately quite abundant right now (!). This one looks good for the common Eudonia mercurella:
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| Eudonia mercurella |
The fourth Cochylis of the year appeared; this is the most regular species here - C.hybridella:
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| Cochylis hybridella |
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