Steve

Now yesterday, news came in of 8 White rumped sandpipers at Belvide. 20 mins away, very local patch. Brain went hmm, but there's lots of willows there too, might be pastorella, and that was the deciding factor!! No birds and no pastorella! Think moths have definitely overtaken birds by a long way! 😊

Thanks Rob, my targets for this autumn were extrematrix and pastorella but running out of poplars and willows to check, but had lots of others along the way 😊

Pretty sure I've got Phyllonorycter cerasicolella on Cherry here. Finding a few locally. Not many records in Staffs. @vc28wildlife.bsky.social Hi Rob do these look ok for cerasicolella please?

Ain't it just 😁

Darn it, that's another one you'll probably beat me to 😉

Be nice if it rears out the right way ( hope Barry W, doesn't read this 😊)

Might be agromyza? Aulagromyza tridentata is a possible i think ?

Yeah, yeah, don't i just know it ! Im already googling dissection kits 😄

Looks like it's got a crease, or is that the vein? 🤞 for pastorella, hoping it can make its way south now for me 😁

Yeah, it was a bit of a double take when I turned the box over. Possibly the nicest GBC I've caught. 😊

But tantalising dangle that bit of hope to keep you going so they can crush your dreams again and again 😁

Only 2/2 last night but one of them was this rather smart brown Green Brindled Crescent. Yesterday's green one was a rather nice moth but think I prefer the subtle tones in this brown one 😊 #teammoth

And here's me hoping I get more than just a single Lunar Underwing! That really is quite an amazing trapping. Love that pink vestal 🙂

A Facebook memory popped up fromn8 years ago. Rescuing a Hornet from my pond, drying it out then feeding it some Jam from a teaspoon to give it some energy 😊. Not sure id have been quite something benevolent if it had been a wasp!

Bit more mining this morning and found Gypsonoma oppressana and Phyllocnistis unipunctella on Poplar 🙂 #teammoth

7/7 last night with Green Brindled Crescent the star of the show #teammoth

Staying cloudy here at the moment, drizzly even! Good luck on the Merv hunt 🤞

Wow, that's quite some catch 👍👍👍

Only one plane tree near me. Well, there may be more if I went into Wolverhampton, but well, that would mean going into Wolverhampton....😁

Found lots of Phyllonorycter platani mines on a local Plane tree. Only seen one before down in London. 🙂

Yeah, but you have beaten me to pastorella, not that there's any competitiveness between our 10ks obviously 😁

Quite a few poplar leaves on the floor today which makes checking easier! Another Phyllonorycter comparella mine, vacated/failed but does mean the first one here wasn't a
"one off" 🙂 #teammoth

Reckon it must be a good year for them , so soon 🤞 🙂

Well that was a pleasant surprise this morning in a relatively quiet trap. White point 😊 First one ever was earlier this year so a second in the garden is rather nice. #teammoth

Round here its predominantly crack willow, not many white willow so far. How much of a factor that is, I'm not sure, says found on CW. Most have been near water. I just need to keep checking 🙂

Be interesting to see what emerges👍. It was just the leaf shape didn't look "classic" aspen, but then I'm not familiar with fresh/young shoot growth 🙂

Sure its Aspen? Does look very Phyllocnistis, doesn't it ?

Nice one, 👍 👍 I now think ive looked at around 4 million willow leaves to no avail. 😁

They are addictive 😁

I'm "Top Gear" about mines. Ambitious but rubbish 😀