Micro moths of Kent

A few more early stage searches over the weekend, around home and Barham Downs/Higham Park, has brought my year list to 50 species, my quic...

Two hours of very productive leaf mine and early stage searching at Sandwich Bay Bird Obs last week (27th Nov) yielded almost 60 species. ...

...or, recent success with mines of a couple of rare/uncommon Ectoedemia species in East Kent. A few weeks ago, was very fortunate to find...

Sometimes the holes left behind by leaf miners can identify the species responsible. Been finding plenty of these over the weekend...all on...

Been on tenterhooks all week, fingers crossed that this moth would emerge... But rewinding a week or so, just beyond my garden I found an ...

Chrysoesthia drurella and C. sexguttella mines on Chenopodium seem particularly plentiful this autumn, so worth checking for. I find the...

It has been far too long since my last post but now back on the blog, just in time for peak Lep miner season. Had a very productive weeken...