Saturday 27 September 2014

Gorseinon & Pwlldu

29 species in the garden trap this morning, the best being 2 Brindled Green, Turnip Moth, Acleris sparsana, 2 Autumn Rustic and second generation Swammerdamia caesiella.  

Yesterday, 14 species of leaf-mining moth were noted at Pwlldu including Ectoedemia angulifasciella on Dog-rose, some vacated and therefore only putative mines of Bucculatrix bechsteinella on Hawthorn (I’ll put a pic up later and would welcome comments), Phyllonorycter acerifoliella on Field Maple and there were plenty mines of Grapholita tenebrosana on the hips of Dog-rose. Non-leps noted included mines of Scaptomyza flava on Sea Radish and Eriophyes convolvens galls on Spindle.

Grapholita tenebrosana mines in rose hips
possible Bucculatrix bechsteinella, a short mine with gallery filled with frass leading to small blotch, plus adjacent external feeding on upper leaf 

4 comments:

  1. Your Bucculatrix looks good to me. It's one I've always thought should be common enough in the county but never found it!

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  2. Thanks Dave, I couldn't see anything else it could be.

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  3. I need to look out for the Grapholita and Bucculatrix in carms too. Thanks Barry.

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  4. I did record tenebrosana on Dog-rose hips at Penclacwydd on Sunday along with a few mines Common Alder.

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