May 2024

An overnight visit to Bringsty Common on our way north to Cumbria targeting Silver Cloud was successful. It was the first moth I saw on retrieving the traps in the morning and I ended up with 18 - all males as far as I could tell. 
While in Cumbria I did two trapping sessions at Cliburn Moss. A Stigmella species which I identified as S.myrtilella is new for the website, but review of 4 previous specimens identified as S.salicis from the same trapping site has resulted in their re-identification as S.myrtillella - although the main reason for re-identification is the abundance of bilberry at Cliburn. Further work is to be done on assessing the genital difference between these species and looking for larval mines.

1761 species presented

73.251 Egira conspicilaris (Silver Cloud); Bringsty Common, 08/05/2024

04.036 Stigmella myrtillella; Cliburn Moss; 15/05/2024