Wednesday
26th January 2005 St Peters Road Margate
Communal over-wintering web ‘tents’
of the Brown-tail Moth caterpillar. In the spring, being in such
numbers, the hawthorn/blackthorn bushes
in the vicinity will be largely defoliated. The
white moth with brown tipped abdomen is on the wing from late June-early
August (F Solly)
Tuesday 25th
January 2005 (Late News)
Thursday 20th January 2005 (Late News) Silver Y and Winter
Moth in trap at Kingsgate ((F Solly)
Wednesday 12
January 2005 Larkey Valley
Wood
Portable larval case of the micro moth Pysche casta
– Larkey Valley Wood (F Solly)
Wednesday
12th January 2005 Kingsgate
Chestnut and Satellite in the Kingsgate
trap on 9/1/2005 (F Solly)
Thursday
6th January 2005 (Late News)
Not much going on bird or moth wise, decided on 8/12 to
have a wander around having a look for micro moth leaf mines (especially
for Dylan who really likes this sort of thing!)
My garden (the initial inspiration) produced Lyonetia
clerkella and Phyllonorycter blancardella on Apple
with Phyllonorycter leucographella on Pyracantha.
In Mocketts Wood (St Peters), I came across Phyllonorycter
tristrigella, Phyllonorycter schreberella, Stigmella
viscerella and Stigmella ulmivora on the Elms.
Kingsgate – Phyllonorycter messaniella
on Holm Oaks and Stigmella agrimoniae on
Agrimony.
Northdown Park – Stigmella suberivora on
Holm Oak and Stigmella tityrella on Beech.
A brief visit to Monkton Nature Reserve, primarily to
check the ‘Bat Cave’ for hibernating lepidoptera
produced 3 Heralds. There was also Phyllonorycter lantanella
on
Way Faring Tree, Emmetia marginea and Stigmella
aurella on Brambles and Lyonetia clerkella again on Apple.
Phyllonorycter ulmifoliella on Downy Birch
and Stigmella aurella on Bramble at East Blean
Far
better than a Great Black-backed Gull with a dodgy bit of plastic on
its leg, ‘loafing’ in the harbour. (F Solly)
Tuesday 4th
January 2005 Winter Moths
Winter Moths were common in the car headlights yesterday evening
when driving back from Grove, a number being seen at Grove, Sarre, Acol
and Birchington. (F
Solly)
