While going through the trap this morning (26/04/2020) and trying to check over a Powdered Quaker I spotted a micro near the house wall and headed over, it seemed to be, hovering almost, around the same area so after much cupping of hands and swinging my arms around to catch it I managed to get it into a pot. I got a few (not very good) pictures of it as it wouldn't sit still, I think it is a Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner, anyone else's ideas are welcome in comments.
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I have 2 catch reports from the moth trap to put in this post so those are on here aswell any comments on the moth trapping also welcome.
Moth Trapping Session 24th April 2020
List of Species
Common Quaker x10
Red Green Carpet x1
Brindled Pug x4
Clouded Drab x2
Hebrew Character x8
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Moth Trapping Session 25th April 2020
List of Species
Grey Birch above -- Powdered Quaker below
Grey Birch x1
Powdered Quaker x1
Common Quaker x9
Hebrew Character x6
Brindled Pug x3
3 comments:
Horse chestnut leaf miner are pretty common and this looks like one. But photo is not very clear...Grey Birch is another new area for this species.
15.089 Horse-chestnut Leaf-miner (Cameraria ohridella), mines and larvae from the Shay football ground, July 11th 2010. First discovered in Britain at Wimbledon in 2002 and in Calderdale in Oct. 2008 by Derek Parkinson. Since then it has rapidly spread throughout Calderdale with practically all trees now being severely affected.
Taken from Charlies blogg..
Cheers, Grey Birch is quite a good species to record i.e scarcity I see from the Moth report. Yes, That's the Cameraria, - rapid spread...
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