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Compensation (?) for a cold wet walk on the Berkshire Downs above Uffington on 14/10.
Probable feeding evidence of Coleophora ahenella in Buckthorn. Large cream coloured blotches with large feeding holes.
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Probable feeding evidence of Coleophora ahenella in Buckthorn. Large cream coloured blotches with large feeding holes.
#teammoth
October 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Compensation (?) for a cold wet walk on the Berkshire Downs above Uffington on 14/10.
Probable feeding evidence of Coleophora ahenella in Buckthorn. Large cream coloured blotches with large feeding holes.
#teammoth
Probable feeding evidence of Coleophora ahenella in Buckthorn. Large cream coloured blotches with large feeding holes.
#teammoth
Some leaf mine bits and pieces from Cheltenham today.
Caloptilia honoratella mines in Sycamore (first mine record for VC33); Lyonetia clerkella mine in Robinia pseudoacacia (probable xenophagy, larva dead) and Bucculatrix bechsteinella in pear (an unusual foodplant in Glos).
Caloptilia honoratella mines in Sycamore (first mine record for VC33); Lyonetia clerkella mine in Robinia pseudoacacia (probable xenophagy, larva dead) and Bucculatrix bechsteinella in pear (an unusual foodplant in Glos).
October 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Some leaf mine bits and pieces from Cheltenham today.
Caloptilia honoratella mines in Sycamore (first mine record for VC33); Lyonetia clerkella mine in Robinia pseudoacacia (probable xenophagy, larva dead) and Bucculatrix bechsteinella in pear (an unusual foodplant in Glos).
Caloptilia honoratella mines in Sycamore (first mine record for VC33); Lyonetia clerkella mine in Robinia pseudoacacia (probable xenophagy, larva dead) and Bucculatrix bechsteinella in pear (an unusual foodplant in Glos).
Phyllonorycter pastorella
Looking at the underside of Crack Willow leaves in the garden produced this example of a mine with a string central crease. Approx 10mm long axis, unfortunately it was parasitized (hole at 9 o’clock) Mine contained frass and front of pupa.
First for Glos
Looking at the underside of Crack Willow leaves in the garden produced this example of a mine with a string central crease. Approx 10mm long axis, unfortunately it was parasitized (hole at 9 o’clock) Mine contained frass and front of pupa.
First for Glos
October 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Phyllonorycter pastorella
Looking at the underside of Crack Willow leaves in the garden produced this example of a mine with a string central crease. Approx 10mm long axis, unfortunately it was parasitized (hole at 9 o’clock) Mine contained frass and front of pupa.
First for Glos
Looking at the underside of Crack Willow leaves in the garden produced this example of a mine with a string central crease. Approx 10mm long axis, unfortunately it was parasitized (hole at 9 o’clock) Mine contained frass and front of pupa.
First for Glos
Gloucestershire Local Nature Recovery Strategy
Anyone in Glos. might be interested in the public consultation phase of the LNRS, which opened yesterday.
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Anyone in Glos. might be interested in the public consultation phase of the LNRS, which opened yesterday.
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Gloucestershire Local Nature Recovery Strategy
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September 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Gloucestershire Local Nature Recovery Strategy
Anyone in Glos. might be interested in the public consultation phase of the LNRS, which opened yesterday.
haveyoursaygloucestershire.uk.engagementhq.com/gloucestersh...
Anyone in Glos. might be interested in the public consultation phase of the LNRS, which opened yesterday.
haveyoursaygloucestershire.uk.engagementhq.com/gloucestersh...
A selection of species visiting an old jam and over-ripe fruit mix in the last few evenings:
Vine’s Rustic
Square-spot Rustic
Large Yellow Underwing
Agriphila geniculea
Vine’s Rustic
Square-spot Rustic
Large Yellow Underwing
Agriphila geniculea
August 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A selection of species visiting an old jam and over-ripe fruit mix in the last few evenings:
Vine’s Rustic
Square-spot Rustic
Large Yellow Underwing
Agriphila geniculea
Vine’s Rustic
Square-spot Rustic
Large Yellow Underwing
Agriphila geniculea
Phyllocnistis mines from Oxford this morning.
What would have been in simpler times P. saligna in White Willow, P. xenia in White Poplar and P. unipunctella in Lombardy Poplar (with side order of Aulagromyza - another complication)
What would have been in simpler times P. saligna in White Willow, P. xenia in White Poplar and P. unipunctella in Lombardy Poplar (with side order of Aulagromyza - another complication)
August 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Phyllocnistis mines from Oxford this morning.
What would have been in simpler times P. saligna in White Willow, P. xenia in White Poplar and P. unipunctella in Lombardy Poplar (with side order of Aulagromyza - another complication)
What would have been in simpler times P. saligna in White Willow, P. xenia in White Poplar and P. unipunctella in Lombardy Poplar (with side order of Aulagromyza - another complication)
White-point rescued from a window upstairs on the bus to Oxford this morning. Not new to SP12, but definitely NFBTO
August 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
White-point rescued from a window upstairs on the bus to Oxford this morning. Not new to SP12, but definitely NFBTO
Photographed climbing the house wall here in Cheltenham this afternoon. Help appreciated as to species.
#UKbutterflies #butterflies
#UKbutterflies #butterflies
August 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Photographed climbing the house wall here in Cheltenham this afternoon. Help appreciated as to species.
#UKbutterflies #butterflies
#UKbutterflies #butterflies
As summer rolls on it’s Deja vu over on @inaturalist.bsky.social with records of “our” Copper Underwing agg. (iNat uses ‘complex’ instead of agg) being id’s to species level uses the v. complicated guide at lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Am...
Amphipyra pyramidea - LepiWiki
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July 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
As summer rolls on it’s Deja vu over on @inaturalist.bsky.social with records of “our” Copper Underwing agg. (iNat uses ‘complex’ instead of agg) being id’s to species level uses the v. complicated guide at lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Am...
Not your average speck of dust and quite a challenge to photograph…
Aproaerema polychromella, first for the VC, seen on the sheet behind the actinic trap this morning.
#teammoth
Aproaerema polychromella, first for the VC, seen on the sheet behind the actinic trap this morning.
#teammoth
July 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Not your average speck of dust and quite a challenge to photograph…
Aproaerema polychromella, first for the VC, seen on the sheet behind the actinic trap this morning.
#teammoth
Aproaerema polychromella, first for the VC, seen on the sheet behind the actinic trap this morning.
#teammoth
Small Ranunculus - the trading estate moth.
Take a defunct Homebase, neglected shrubbery and plenty of Prickly Lettuce and it’s home from home for the Small Ranunculus.
Take a defunct Homebase, neglected shrubbery and plenty of Prickly Lettuce and it’s home from home for the Small Ranunculus.
July 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Small Ranunculus - the trading estate moth.
Take a defunct Homebase, neglected shrubbery and plenty of Prickly Lettuce and it’s home from home for the Small Ranunculus.
Take a defunct Homebase, neglected shrubbery and plenty of Prickly Lettuce and it’s home from home for the Small Ranunculus.
A walk in the park…
From this afternoon:
Leucoptera laburnella in Laburnum,
Lyonetia clerkella in Swedish Whitbeam,
Stigmella aceris in Field Maple,
Etainia louisella in Field Maple seed.
Aceris photo also has probable Caloptilia semifascia fold.
#teammoth
From this afternoon:
Leucoptera laburnella in Laburnum,
Lyonetia clerkella in Swedish Whitbeam,
Stigmella aceris in Field Maple,
Etainia louisella in Field Maple seed.
Aceris photo also has probable Caloptilia semifascia fold.
#teammoth
July 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A walk in the park…
From this afternoon:
Leucoptera laburnella in Laburnum,
Lyonetia clerkella in Swedish Whitbeam,
Stigmella aceris in Field Maple,
Etainia louisella in Field Maple seed.
Aceris photo also has probable Caloptilia semifascia fold.
#teammoth
From this afternoon:
Leucoptera laburnella in Laburnum,
Lyonetia clerkella in Swedish Whitbeam,
Stigmella aceris in Field Maple,
Etainia louisella in Field Maple seed.
Aceris photo also has probable Caloptilia semifascia fold.
#teammoth
Agonopterix arenella caterpillar found in a loose spinning in a Burdock leaf this pm.
ID helped by
identikit.fscbiodiversity.uk/wenman/mimol...
A guide par excellence for micro moth larvae
ID helped by
identikit.fscbiodiversity.uk/wenman/mimol...
A guide par excellence for micro moth larvae
June 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Agonopterix arenella caterpillar found in a loose spinning in a Burdock leaf this pm.
ID helped by
identikit.fscbiodiversity.uk/wenman/mimol...
A guide par excellence for micro moth larvae
ID helped by
identikit.fscbiodiversity.uk/wenman/mimol...
A guide par excellence for micro moth larvae
Following my recent appointment as county recorder for specks of dust, I’m pleased to identify this one as Ectoedemia heringella.
(From a Holm Oak this afternoon)
#teammoth
(From a Holm Oak this afternoon)
#teammoth
June 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Following my recent appointment as county recorder for specks of dust, I’m pleased to identify this one as Ectoedemia heringella.
(From a Holm Oak this afternoon)
#teammoth
(From a Holm Oak this afternoon)
#teammoth
Micro-moth odds and ends #3
Not noticed this before, but Box Moth feeding is confined to the lower branches of the large Box trees in a Cheltenham park. A similar situation is sometimes apparent on Horse Chestnuts with Cameraria caterpillars.
#teammoth
Not noticed this before, but Box Moth feeding is confined to the lower branches of the large Box trees in a Cheltenham park. A similar situation is sometimes apparent on Horse Chestnuts with Cameraria caterpillars.
#teammoth
June 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Micro-moth odds and ends #3
Not noticed this before, but Box Moth feeding is confined to the lower branches of the large Box trees in a Cheltenham park. A similar situation is sometimes apparent on Horse Chestnuts with Cameraria caterpillars.
#teammoth
Not noticed this before, but Box Moth feeding is confined to the lower branches of the large Box trees in a Cheltenham park. A similar situation is sometimes apparent on Horse Chestnuts with Cameraria caterpillars.
#teammoth
Micro-moth odds and ends #2
Freshly marked Brown House Moth found with 3 others, having feed as larvae in a box of organic fertiliser, with added seaweed. No wonder it looks like a big specimen.
#teammoth
Freshly marked Brown House Moth found with 3 others, having feed as larvae in a box of organic fertiliser, with added seaweed. No wonder it looks like a big specimen.
#teammoth
June 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Micro-moth odds and ends #2
Freshly marked Brown House Moth found with 3 others, having feed as larvae in a box of organic fertiliser, with added seaweed. No wonder it looks like a big specimen.
#teammoth
Freshly marked Brown House Moth found with 3 others, having feed as larvae in a box of organic fertiliser, with added seaweed. No wonder it looks like a big specimen.
#teammoth
Micro-moth odds and ends #1
Etainia sericopeza with a very short mine from egg to Norway Maple seed (right side “wing” here)
Tenanted seeds on the ground near under a Norway Maple near you.
Etainia sericopeza with a very short mine from egg to Norway Maple seed (right side “wing” here)
Tenanted seeds on the ground near under a Norway Maple near you.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Micro-moth odds and ends #1
Etainia sericopeza with a very short mine from egg to Norway Maple seed (right side “wing” here)
Tenanted seeds on the ground near under a Norway Maple near you.
Etainia sericopeza with a very short mine from egg to Norway Maple seed (right side “wing” here)
Tenanted seeds on the ground near under a Norway Maple near you.
Phyllonorycter comparella emerged y’day from a mine in Lombardy Poplar collected on 10 June. Very limited distribution in Glos. despite widespread planting of Poplar trees.
June 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Phyllonorycter comparella emerged y’day from a mine in Lombardy Poplar collected on 10 June. Very limited distribution in Glos. despite widespread planting of Poplar trees.
Phone photo of an Apple Ermine, tapped out of a cocoon mass on a neighbour’s Apple tree. Contrasting grey cilia just about visible.
Things get more “interesting” with a bit of wear and the ID of adults becomes more or less impossible.
Things get more “interesting” with a bit of wear and the ID of adults becomes more or less impossible.
June 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Phone photo of an Apple Ermine, tapped out of a cocoon mass on a neighbour’s Apple tree. Contrasting grey cilia just about visible.
Things get more “interesting” with a bit of wear and the ID of adults becomes more or less impossible.
Things get more “interesting” with a bit of wear and the ID of adults becomes more or less impossible.
Two male? Uncertain, attracted to the VES lure left out overnight. A replay of last summer when this happened on 5 nights, with another three nights featuring the pomonella lure. No records of The Rustic under similar circumstances. #teammoth
June 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Two male? Uncertain, attracted to the VES lure left out overnight. A replay of last summer when this happened on 5 nights, with another three nights featuring the pomonella lure. No records of The Rustic under similar circumstances. #teammoth
There is a degree of ambivalence among some in the moth community about iNaturalist.
However, 2 positives are the international perspective and some useful tools.
E.g. 2 heat maps from labenvmicro.shinyapps.io/iNaturalist_...
for Oak and Shiny Hook-tips - topical species in the UK.
#moths
However, 2 positives are the international perspective and some useful tools.
E.g. 2 heat maps from labenvmicro.shinyapps.io/iNaturalist_...
for Oak and Shiny Hook-tips - topical species in the UK.
#moths
November 24, 2024 at 11:27 AM
There is a degree of ambivalence among some in the moth community about iNaturalist.
However, 2 positives are the international perspective and some useful tools.
E.g. 2 heat maps from labenvmicro.shinyapps.io/iNaturalist_...
for Oak and Shiny Hook-tips - topical species in the UK.
#moths
However, 2 positives are the international perspective and some useful tools.
E.g. 2 heat maps from labenvmicro.shinyapps.io/iNaturalist_...
for Oak and Shiny Hook-tips - topical species in the UK.
#moths
Time to look at garden centre citrus plants.
2 vacated mines with larval folds of Phyllocnistis citrella photographed today from Burford, Oxfordshire.
2 vacated mines with larval folds of Phyllocnistis citrella photographed today from Burford, Oxfordshire.
November 17, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Time to look at garden centre citrus plants.
2 vacated mines with larval folds of Phyllocnistis citrella photographed today from Burford, Oxfordshire.
2 vacated mines with larval folds of Phyllocnistis citrella photographed today from Burford, Oxfordshire.