Among the butterflies, Dingy and Grizzled Skippers were almost over and Small Blue numbers were also starting to decline, though quite a few eggs and empty eggshells were found on Kidney Vetch flowers. Two Marsh Fritillaries were seen on the Butterfly Ride, and three Small Pearl-bordered Frits in the north-western part of the forest. Ringlets were already out in good number and I was surprised to see two Marbled Whites (early for Carms?).
I saw few macro-moths but Blackneck and Four-dotted Footman were nice.
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| Scythris picaepennis |
George
Interesting blog, George. I suspect that Sam is away at present, as he has n`t commented on recent blogs...he`s best placed to tell you re your micro.
ReplyDeleteI started looking at the area between Foelgastell and esp just N of Drefach in the Gwendraeth Valley yesterday for marsh frits...but ran out of time. The area at cSN535139 etc, looks promising. Found a nice bog at SN540145.
Just got back on-line. Will be blogging to explain why... There's one 2003 record by Jon of S picaepennis from Pembrey, so yours is the 2nd county record. I must confess to finding Scythridae totally impossible!
ReplyDeleteDo you mean...impossible to find or impossible to identify? I was only confident with this one as it was swept from the foodplant, and because most of the similar ones are only known from SE England.
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