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Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Is it Army Beet Worm or...?

 I had a small, pale, noctuid in my thin, wet, trap this morning. I wondered if it was small Mottled Willow but it looked nothing like the examples in my books. I used an app which told me it was Army Beet Worm, something I had never heard of. It has another name though - Small Mottled Willow.

In the photograph the orange oval is clear.

I also had an attractive Crambid.

Catoptria pinella which I had previously in 2020.

2 comments:

  1. A single small mottled willow (on 20/6) was my only migrant (apart from 2x separate diamond-backs) during the recent immigrant influx.

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  2. It was a first for me so I was very pleased.

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