For a few years now I’ve been searching for the flightless females of some of the species of moths around at this time of year, most of which I did obtain without too much difficulty. The one species that I just could not get was the March moth. This moth is very common here at IGC, but despite searching lots of tree trunks at night and breeding caterpillars through I just didn’t get one! Until this year, when a check of my pot of March pupae yesterday revealed a female! This has now completed my quest for all the macro species found in Suffolk, just need the 2 found further north in the UK – the Rannoch brindled beauty and the Belted beauty to complete the set, hope to find them later on this Spring.
Neil
March moth female bred from larva collected IGC 2011
Well done Neil. Looking at the various moth sites, its seems that photographs of females are quite rare.
Brian