Calderdale Moths , Butterflies and Dragonflies: Tiny Yellow Underwing

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Tiny Yellow Underwing

Can anyone i.d. this micro, I've named it a Tiny Y.U. because of the yellow underwings, I caught two on Monday night, the only Moths I've had this week

6 comments:

Winston said...: martin, no idea but its spectacular! well done. can someone else help? win; 2 March 2011 at 15:22
Anonymous said...: Esperia sulphurella. The larvae feed in dead wood and the adults are commonly seen during daylight hours.; 2 March 2011 at 20:57
charlie streets said...: Crikey that's an early one, you don't normally get those til April. You didn't bring some pupae indoors with some firewood by any chance?; 2 March 2011 at 23:14
Bennyboymothman said...: We'll be seeing Rustic Shoulder-knot then soon lol! very early, must have hatched from somewhere slightly indoors, a barn perhaps?; 2 March 2011 at 23:30
martynbirder said...: that could be the case, I have a store of logs indoors, so presumably they could have hatched inside and flew out of the door, hence appearing in my Moth trap; 3 March 2011 at 02:32
Goldon Gordon said...: Martyn
I used to get loads of these in the garden in Elland and could not understand why until I looked up the lifecyle and found they fed in dead wood. We had two "habitat" piles of dead wood in the garden and they were obviously breeding in them !!; 3 March 2011 at 07:31