Rob Edmunds

Here’s one on a black background

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They’ve been expanding rapidly here Steve. Such smart moths

Dotted Chestnut

Two Dotted Chestnut were NFY last night. Such smart moths!

Comma butterfly

First Comma of the year in the garden this afternoon

March moth

Moth of the month? March moth last night.NFY
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Agonoptetix alstromeriana in the garden shed

Agonopterix alstromeriana in the garden shed this afternoon. A hibernating moth. #norfolkmoths

Here’s the one on bay from yesterday which seems to be a different scale insect - Coccus hesperidum

A scale insect on our Ivy today - Lichtensia viburni (i think!).

Euleia heraclei on Alexanders

Alexanders have started growing at the top of our road and here’s the first Euleia heraclei mine on them. A common miner of this plant

Skeins of Pink-footed Geese over the garden this afternoon. Traffic noise has drowned out their calls though!

Thanks Steve

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Pammene giganteana to SKI lure in the garden this morning

Of course it is!
Thanks

Thank you

Thanks Martin

I found this fly in our conservatory in the week. I think it’s Scathophaga stercoriana as it has a black third antennal segment. Hopefully a correct id?

@pietervantieghem.bsky.social the research covered Belgium and the Netherlands
Interestingly triandricola was found by rivers and perhaps this is the same here as the first record in the uk was by wetlands

Recent research on the Phyllocnistis saligna complex in the Netherlands has shown that saligna is not present there!
Most mines are P.asiatica with P triandricola found in almond willow or rarely on purple willow.
We have both asiatica and triandricola in the UK. Barcoding is going on here.

Shoulder Stripe

Pale Pinion

42/8 last night with Shoulder Stripe and Pale Pinion NFY

Thanks for your help. Once it flowers it can be photographed and then identified to species (hopefully!)

Does anyone know if The beetles of Britain and Ireland volume 4 by Duff will be reprinted? It seems unobtainable at present

Australian Ringnecked Parrot at our window feeder. An escape.

Dotted Border

A large haul for my garden last night (at any time of year!) with 60/5 moths including 38 Common Quakers, along with Small Quakers, Clouded Drab, Hebrew Character and this Dotted Border

Thanks Trevor. Will get photos when flowering

Rockrose prickly leaf beetle / RHS The rockrose prickly leaf beetle (<em>Dicladispa testacea</em>) feeds on rockroses (<em>Cistus </em>spp.). This distinctive beetle is widespread in mainland Europe, however, was recently recorded bree...

The host is very interesting as it has mines of the Rockrose prickly leaf beetle which was newly discovered to the UK in London in 2021. The adults are amazing

www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profi...

@trevorthebotanist.bsky.social ?

Thanks Alex

Thanks Jo. We wondered about a Cistus variant