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Monday, 17 March 2014
Tortured by a Tort!
Perhaps someone can help me - hence the title - with the i/d of the tortricid in the photo below please?, caught last night (16.3.14) at Tyrwaun, Pwll and part of a rather mediocre catch. Sorry the photo is not more `close-up` - due to the technical constraints of my camera and my ineptitude! It was c. 1cm long.
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It's an Oak Nycteoline - the cheeky little snout is a good pointer. A very beautifully marked individual.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sam. This one completely `threw me`....and talk about `barking up the wrong tree` too!
ReplyDeleteNo wonder I could n`t find it amongst the torts!...just did n`t think of looking amongst the macros.
Thanks too to Melanie Jones for the i/d.
Looks superficially like the one Jake caught in Roath, which resembled Eastern Nycteoline http://gmrg-vc41moths.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/eastern-nycteoline.html
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A few people actually twitched it before it was dissected and it turned to be just plain old Oak Nycteoline.
Thanks Barry. Glad the Glamorgan one was n`t the rarity, as mine was released yesterday!
ReplyDeleteI recall that I`ve confused oak nycteoline with a potential tortricid before - so I did n`t learn from a previous mistake. When I `rule the world`, I`ll transfer it to the `tort family`!