Below: three leaf mines on a birch at Bynea - i/d`s welcome!
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Thursday, 30 July 2015
Movement.....
At a brownfield site at Bynea, Llanelli this afternoon (30/7) a clouded yellow, two red admirals and the migrant hoverfly Scaeva pyrastri - things may be moving ie moth migrants may be on the way. Also various micros including a TINY plume moth that seems to be the hemp agrimony plume Adaina microdactyla, though it needs further checking.
Above: the tiny plume-moth - about <1cm across in this photo.
Above: the Bynea brownfield site, flower-rich with marjoram in foreground.
Above: Grapholita compositella was among the micros caught.
Below: three leaf mines on a birch at Bynea - i/d`s welcome!
Below: three leaf mines on a birch at Bynea - i/d`s welcome!
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The 1st and 3rd ones look like Lyonetia clerkella - long and sinuous. The middle one looks like the work of a Stigmella, but not sure which one.
ReplyDeleteThe frass looks dispersed in the Stigmella mine (rather than linear), there are no clear margins along the frass, and the moth has emerged already: all this suggests to me it's Stigmella continuella (judging by the MBGBI key). I agree the others are Lyonetia - thankyou George :-)
ReplyDelete....and thank you both - Ian.
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