A reasonable haul in the garden moth trap this morning, with new for the year records of Common Wave and burnished brass
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| Burnished brass |
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| Burnished brass |
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| Common wave |
However, a small very plain brown micro with a yellow head caught my attention as unusual and so it proved, a Achroia grisella (Lesser wax moth.) This is a pest to bee keepers as it lays its eggs in bee hives and the young caterpillars can cause damage to the hive by munching through everything and anything that is in there.
In all 18 moths of 16 species.
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| Achroia grisella (Lesser wax moth) |
These records take the number of moths trapped this year in the parish to 1115 made up of 58 micro species and 102 macro species and, in total 594 species for the parish.
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