Common Blue on Plaintain
Painted Lady, one by the Bedzed cafe today- good numbers are arriving in the country at the moment joining the Diamond-back Moth invasion. There was another swarm on Diamond-backs on the southern mound- so an estimated 200+ on site at the moment.
A picture-winged Fly
Blood Vein
Cornflowers, Corn cockles, Corn Marigolds and mustards flowering on the Northern Mound
Micros in the trap last night (some provisional ids- corrections welcome)
Celypha lacuana
Eudonia angustea
Eudonia pallida
Homoeosoma sinuella
Blastobasis lacticolella - actually Platyedra subcinerea (Cheers Billy! Surrey moths FB group)
Ash bud moth Prays fraxinella (if correct id, new for farmlands)
Cochylis atricapitana
Coleophora sp? (maybe C.anatipennella- Pistol Case-bearer?) Surrey moths id as Aspilapteryx tringipennella. (cheers Mike!) New for me.
No idea? Surrey moths suggest Roeslerstammia erxlebella. (Cheers Philip) or Prays rufinella or ruficeps (cheers Mike)
4 comments:
Its astounding the number of Diamondback moths that have been seen recently.
While refilling garden feeders on Friday I realized that there were a fair few around our garden. There were about 15 all around the garden!
Why are there so many around?
There must be a heck of a lot more than 200+ Diamond-backs on the farm at the moment? Surely you missed off a zero or three?
Hi Arjun- I think it is related to hostile conditions on the continent. Presumably they are being forced out. ? Will be interesting to read the write up/analysis on this later.
Going out today Lee to check the whole area - 200 is definitely an underestimate
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