Monday, 29 April 2019

Parornix sp....??

Found this at Cromwell today   on Silver Birch ....any ideas..Parornix betulae or the very common angelicana.....

4 comments:

Colin D said...

Hi Andy Well it looks as good a photo fit for Hawthorn Slender as you might get but likely a gen det for the purists I presume you found it near the Hawthorn Hedge along the weir or similar . in which case it would be worth a look for the curled leaves and conical larval cases Gracillariidae

Colin D said...

Whats it on ???

AndyC said...

Silver Birch

charlie streets said...

Probably P.anglicella as the mines/feedings signs are very common on Hawthorn but unless you get it dissected you'll never know. Still a very nice find, I've yet to see an adult Parornix.