Acleris notana

I slightly tardy post. In September I found a pupa inside spun leaves on a young birch tree at Median Farm, Cross Hands. This hatched a few weeks later and proved to be the tortricid Acleris notana. This is a common species but tends to be under-recorded as it usually needs dissection to separate it from the oak-feeding lookalike Acleris ferrugana, so it was nice in this case to be able to eliminate the alternative based on foodplant.

Acleris notana