Andy Banthorpe
vc30moths.bsky.social
Andy Banthorpe
@vc30moths.bsky.social
One half of the County Moth Recordership in vc30 Bedfordshire (my wife Melissa is the other half). Moths, Leafminers, other wildlife etc
If kept in the freezer some last and work ok for years so do try them. As others have said date, time of day and habitat are all important. Some species don't move much either. I have used the Six-belted lure at a site with nothing arriving in 15 mins, moved the lure 10m and bingo.
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Best id is by the shape of the antennae segments. It is dependant on the sex as males and females different but it's great for telling awkward Grey Pine and Spruce Carpet specimens apart
October 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Not a leafminer but just damage on the leaf causer unknown
October 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
To be honest even if they did that it would pick up so much non mine dross and also many or maybe most real mines would have needed more info to id
October 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The mine in this case is Agromyzidae but would need breeding to id.
Yes Melissa and I do look on gardening programmes and try and spot mines on plants! As to.other iRecord photos verifiers only see their species group(s) so I would only see records stated as moths for Bedfordshire and not others
October 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Definitely a Euura species of sawfly on Salix. There are several species like this and usually the id depends a lot on identifying the particular Salix species
October 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Nice work and yes depending on the site they can take a long time to find
October 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Yes they probably are - I was just pointing one of the issues with Stigmella mines on Hornbeam
October 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Nice to get L-album :-)
October 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Round here in Beds it is probably under recorded but still scarce and we rarely find it.
October 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Stigmella mines on Hornbeam can be problematic at Stigmella carpinella is one of the options and not identifiable without breeding through
October 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It could be one of several species of Oak feeding Stigmella but you would need to see the larval.features along with various features of the mine to get to an id and sadly this mige is vacated
September 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
That would fit and not one we would have thought of. We will have dig in the literature.
September 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Looks like it but this was on Hazel. Thanks for eliminating Sawflies for us though. I have someone else I can ask
September 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Sadly not anything useable
September 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Yes that's fine. We gave done the same in the county Mapmate dataset for now with our 2 records
September 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Good luck :-)
September 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Thanks and yes iRecord is fine if it works for you too
August 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM