Emergence-y, Emergence-y...

Apologies for dodgy title but every day seems to bring new emergence from the wealth of larvae, cases and pupae collected over the last few months, some of the latest include:

Acrobasis consociella: http://kentmicromoths.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/early-stages-acrobasis-consociella.html


Agonopterix assimilella: http://kentmicromoths.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/weekend-round-up-good-variety.html


Coleophora solitariella: http://kentmicromoths.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/fruitful-dusking-forays.html


Yponomeuta cagnagella

Weekend round-up: good variety

Added quite a few species to the year list both with adults from the garden MV trap and searches for other stages in local woodland.

The garden trap yielded new for year:

Ypsolopha mucronella

Emmelina monodactyla

plus more Agnopterix heracliana

Trunk searching in King's Wood, Challock, gave good numbers of Taleporia tubulosa cases (see below): these are very well camouflaged, but their preference for the smooth bark of Beech trees makes the task less difficult.  Also found a few Coleophora sp. cases in crevices on Beech trees.

Also searching on Broom showed that Agonopterix assimilella larvae are very plentiful right now.  The larvae feed from the safety of a larval spinning and are pretty easy to locate.