The Spring equinox has now passed and the days will now be longer than the nights.
No surprises on the macro front last night but two micros may prove to be "garden firsts" when ID is confirmed.
If so, it will leave me just 3 short of 500 garden species......
Tally:-
0435 ... Zelleria hepariella 1 ... Garden first
0647 ... Brown House-moth Hofmannophila pseudospretella 1 0663 ... Diurnea fagella 2
1044/45 ... Acleris ferrugana/notana 1 ... Garden first (whichever)
1497 ... Amblyptilia acanthadactyla 2
1524 ... Emmelina monodactyla 4
2182 ... Small Quaker Orthosia cruda 4
2187 ... Common Quaker Orthosia cerasi 7
2190 ... Hebrew Character Orthosia gothica 3
2243 ... Early Grey Xylocampa areola 3
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The two micros to be correctly ID'd
My attempt at these is :-
0435 ... Zelleria hepariella
1044 ... Acleris ferrugana ......so it will be notana !
The top two pics show the Zelleria ? in it's near normal pose, which was difficult as the creature is frozen.
But it is a "head-downer" not a "sit-up-and-beg".
ID now confirmed...thanks to David Manning, Bedfordshire micro moth recorder, and Dave from east Kent.
AND 1044 Acleris ferrugana was correct on a 50/50...gen det D, Manning
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| 435 Zelleria hepariella |
The next two pics show the possible Acleris ferrugana/notana
I agree with both of your ID's.
ReplyDeleteI like the Zelleria - a cute little fellow with a distinctive resting pose.
The second really needs the chop to separate.
Regards
Dave
Thanks Dave, appreciate the comments. These two are new additions to the garden list, I'll add them as soon as I can get them to our micro recorder for the gen. det. on the acleris.
DeleteI got a photo last week of a micro looks like your Zelleria also. Must send it to recorder...
ReplyDeleteAndy
Andy, it probably is...I scoured UK Moths and there is nothing too similar that adopts the same head-down pose.
DeleteDVM accepted it on photo alone.