Third Vestal of the season last night (the pink variants haven’t made it here yet). Others included a Clancy’s Rustic and Rusty-dot Pearl (Udea ferrugalis). #norfolkmoths
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Stictopleurus abutilon on yarrow today ( circles on anterior edge of pronotum distinguishes it from punctatonervosus)
Leaves are coming down off Poplars now -here is the green island mine of Ectoedemia hannoverella with typical double track frass line as the larva feeds from the petiole into the leaf
We have a succulent - Stapelia, which looks quite ordinary until it flowers! The flowers are large but unfortunately have a bad smell like you’ve trodden in dog’s dirt, so it has to go into the greenhouse until it stops flowering!
The stunningly marked Vestals have finally made their way to West Norfolk! A Pale-lemon Sallow was another highlight in a 17/11 trap last night #norfolkmoths
Caloptilia fidella - mines hop and new to Norfolk this year. An adult has emerged today #norfolkmoths
Some smart looking Black bean aphids (Aphis fabae) on our dahlias
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A couple of uncommon miners this morning Antispila treitschkiella on Cornus mas Ectoedemia hannoverella on Populus nigra variant (first of the year) #norfolkmoths
A night for smaller moths with 15 Scrobipalpa ocellatella and two Small Mottled Willows Beaded Chestnuts are appearing now
Do you fancy staring at daisies? Some good mines about at present - they are scarce too, but may be under recorded Two from our lawn today - not hard to find! Calycomyza humeralis - white blotch mine Liriomyza pusilla - twisting galleries with threa- like frass
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Ivy is a really good source of diptera, including hoverflies, and bees at this time of year Besides Honey bees today there were lots of Ivy bees along with Calliphora vomitoria, Myathropa flora, Eristalis tenax etc
NFG is this Bishop’s Mitre Shieldbug (Aelia acuminata). It was on the garage door.
Lyonetia prunifoliella are making their ‘hammocks’ to pupate this afternoon - two being made. Stigmella incognitella and malella on apples in the garden too #norfolkmoths
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Second generation Lyonetia prunifoliella mines in the garden have appeared in the last week #norfolkmoths
Bedellia somnulentella in Cardiff on bindweed. Acrocercops brongniardella on Evergreen Oak in Barry yesterday.
Oedemera femoralis- a nocturnal nationally scarce beetle found on walls or under bark. I rescued this one from a rock pool in Barry today
A late Scarce Silver-lines last night was NFG. Misnamed as it’s common in Norfolk. A beautiful moth! #norfolkmoths
Always stay alert… Walking past some ivy on a southeast London street. My subconscious discerns a micromoth fizzing. Turns out to be Clepsis dumicolana. Turns out there are a dozen. Relatively recent, ivy-feeding colonist. And new for me.
I assume Bucculatrix bechsteinella is under recorded as it’s such an insignificant initial mine - just a small white ‘tick’ by a vein Here are some from the garden today #norfolkmoths
Hard to photograph Black Rustic, NFY, to do justice to its deep black colouration. Always pleased to see it in the autumn. Clancy’s Rustic and L-album Wainscot were other highlights last night #norfolkmoths
Amazing galls on wild rose today - Diplolepis nervosa (Sputnik Gall wasp)
Several Nursery Web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) sheltering on Hop a couple of days ago @britishspiders.bsky.social
Caloptilia fidella is now in West Norfolk. It has just arrived as it wasn’t present in the summer Note leaf roll and small white initial mine are on the same leaf Worth checking Bedfordshire @vc30moths.bsky.social? #norfolkmoths
I collected a couple of Phyllonorycter pastorella mines from the Weeping Willow in the garden yesterday and an adult emerged today #norfolkmoths
