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Friday, 6 June 2014
Some Crychan Puzzlers...
I`d appreciated any advice as to the identity of the following three photos, two tortricids and one caterpillar. As usual, click on photos to enlarge.
1. Above: quite large, almost a cm.
2. a smaller tort, both specimens were swept from acidic vegetation along the forest rides.
3. a more difficult request - beaten from rowan. About 2cms + in length.
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Epiblema sp probably scutulana
ReplyDeleteCelypha lacunana - it's essential that anyone launching into micros learns this ultra-common Tort. The dark bar across the middle of the wing is broken by a diagnostic pale patch coming in from the head end (the lacuna).
I don't do green caterpillars - each time I try, using the book, they match a picture perfectly but it always turns out to be Fisher's Estuarine Moth or Tunbridge Wells Gem!
Thanks Sam. Re the caterpillar, it must be the latter!!!....some hope!
ReplyDeleteCould be a Grass Emerald? Any broom or gorse near-by?
ReplyDeleteYes, broom grew all around this particular young rowan!
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