Monday 2 July 2012

A rich seam at the mine

Well peak season for miners seems to be taking off now, half an hour or so scouring hedges close to the house at the weekend yielded, amongst others the following:

Antispila metallella on Dogwood: tenanted and vacated (showing cut-out)
Antispila metallella tenanted mine on Dogwood Antispila metallella vacated mine and cut-out on Dogwood

Stigmella malella on Apple - tenanted
Stigmella malella tenanted mine on Apple

Stigmella lemniscella on Elm
Stigmella lemniscella mine on Elm

Phyllonorycter blancardella on Apple (upperside and underside)
Phyllonorycter blancardella mine on Apple Phyllonorycter blancardella mine on Apple

Callisto denticulella - tenanted
Callisto denticulella mine on Apple

Lyonetia clerkella - quite a few of these
Lyonetia clerkella mine

Dave


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