Andy Banthorpe

Lovely walk in. Bedfordshire wood this afternoon to see the wild Narcissus and also Wood Anemones and even a couple of Bluebells out.

Received today thanks. Once I get a chance I will hopefully get an id for you

Yes please send all the bits and I will see what can be done. I need the exuvia and the case as well

Wow great find Matt

Some others too depending on food supply etc.

Melissa and I just watched the first episode of Aillte by @cormacscoast.bsky.social on TG4 - it's a really good watch. Easy to get the TG4 player on our smart TV and the programme has English subtitles. Looking forward to watching the other episode tomorrow. www.tg4.ie/en/player/ca...

Happy memories of seeing them in 2005

One of 3 cases of CV Coleophora saturatella on the same Broom plant in east Beds vc30 this afternoon the 8th county record. All the Beds records are in the same area of the county across 2 sites. #TeamMoth

It is a superb book. I often dip into it

This is Bedfordshire but there are photos of the different stages. It should have most of the species you are interested in www.keithbalmer.com/bedsbutterfl...

Some Leafmines still to be found in Bedfordshire on Boxing Day. Ectoedemia rubivora in Dewberry/Bramble, Liriomyza pascuum in Wood Spurge and the ubiquitous Phytomyza chaerophylli in Cow Parsley. rubivora had evaded us this year until now. #TeamMoth

If kept in the freezer some last and work ok for years so do try them. As others have said date, time of day and habitat are all important. Some species don't move much either. I have used the Six-belted lure at a site with nothing arriving in 15 mins, moved the lure 10m and bingo.

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Best id is by the shape of the antennae segments. It is dependant on the sex as males and females different but it's great for telling awkward Grey Pine and Spruce Carpet specimens apart

Not a leafminer but just damage on the leaf causer unknown

To be honest even if they did that it would pick up so much non mine dross and also many or maybe most real mines would have needed more info to id

The mine in this case is Agromyzidae but would need breeding to id.
Yes Melissa and I do look on gardening programmes and try and spot mines on plants! As to.other iRecord photos verifiers only see their species group(s) so I would only see records stated as moths for Bedfordshire and not others

Definitely a Euura species of sawfly on Salix. There are several species like this and usually the id depends a lot on identifying the particular Salix species

Phyllonorycter pastorella mine on Crack Willow and Aulagromyza heringii on Ash. Both new leafmines to site for @englishheritage.bsky.social Wrest Park. Also a few other added along with several gall species. #TeamMoth

Nice work and yes depending on the site they can take a long time to find

Picked up our copy of the excellent new Bedfordshire avifauna at the launch event today. It is 31 years since the last was published and this is so much more. 500 pages and a superb job with all monies going to 2 reserves in the county. Get it now via the Bedfordshire Bird Club website.

Yes they probably are - I was just pointing one of the issues with Stigmella mines on Hornbeam

@ashwhiffin.bsky.social excellent film just now on Gardeners World. Great encouragement to enhance the biodiversity of sites

Nice to get L-album :-)

Round here in Beds it is probably under recorded but still scarce and we rarely find it.

Stigmella mines on Hornbeam can be problematic at Stigmella carpinella is one of the options and not identifiable without breeding through

It could be one of several species of Oak feeding Stigmella but you would need to see the larval.features along with various features of the mine to get to an id and sadly this mige is vacated

That would fit and not one we would have thought of. We will have dig in the literature.

Looks like it but this was on Hazel. Thanks for eliminating Sawflies for us though. I have someone else I can ask

Sadly not anything useable