Most of my Common Wainscots turn out to be Smoky so I had a good look at the underside and the hindwing of the specimen below.
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Sunday, 23 June 2019
The longest day
Despite my own misgivings about the clearing sky on Friday night, I left the trap out and had a reasonable number of moths on Saturday morning - mostly Heart and Dart and some Heart and Club. I also recorded a couple of new Micros for the garden.
Dingy Pearl
Small Chinamark.
Most of my Common Wainscots turn out to be Smoky so I had a good look at the underside and the hindwing of the specimen below.
Both the underside and the upperside of the hindwing were very white with just a smudge of grey, so I think this could actually be the rather uncommon, "Common" Wainscot. But apparently not...it's Southern. Sigh...
Most of my Common Wainscots turn out to be Smoky so I had a good look at the underside and the hindwing of the specimen below.
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DO you think your Wainscot might be a Southern??
ReplyDeleteI do now, following Ian's advice
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