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Thursday 28 July 2022

A visit to Pendine...

 I made a visit to Ragwen Point and Dolwen Point west of Pendine yesterday (27/7). Nothing particularly interesting moth-wise on the gritstone Ragwen Point (though there was a colony of a solitary bee Colletes sp. a specimen of which will be looked at at a later date).

Pachyrhabda steropodes silken larval tubes were found on a few soft shield-fern fronds in the ash woodland (much affected by die-back) north of Morfa Bychan shingle beach; suggesting that this alien micro is now on the cusp of colonising south Pembrokeshire only a few miles to the west - if it has not already done so.

At Dolwen Point, overlooking Pendine village, mines of Caloptilia cucculipennella were found on native privet leaves on the S-facing Carboniferous limestone cliffs, a 2nd vcr. The first county record was made a couple of years or so ago by Mel Jones at Llansteffan (where privet is frequent on the Old Red Sandstone cliffs). 


Finally, some disturbed ground near the car park in Pendine yielded some mines of Chrysoethia sexguttulla on Atriplex leaves.

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