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Showing posts with label Dichrorampha plumbana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dichrorampha plumbana. Show all posts

Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Tort Tick

Amongst the generally pathetic-for-mid-June catch in the garden moth trap last night, I did managed to finally notice and record this .....

Isotrias rectifasciana

This is a new one for me, though I am absolutely sure that this is because I will ignored it in the past amongst various Cnephasia spp. This one only caught my eye as it was sitting on the white trap funnel isolated.

Seems as good an opportunity as any to also post some other recent early-summer torts - all found by day. It's pretty obvious which one was photographed in the field ......

This one from Huncote Embankent is almost certainly Dichrorampha plumbana - gen det required
Only one previous VC55 record, err, mine!

Dichrorampha alpinana from Whetstone

Pammene aurana from Cosby