After reading Neil’s excellent blog on Adela cuprella I have been keeping an eye out for this micro, but the weather has not been ideal. This morning the sun came out at last and I had a look at a clump of willows I pass almost every day on the bank of Breydon Water, right next to the Breydon bascule bridge. I counted 26 flying about on the leeward side of the clump, but as soon as the sun went in they alighted on the flowers and I managed to get a reasonable photo of one, a female I think with darker antenna and another of them in flight. Thanks Neil for the helpful information, it’s a new moth for me. It will go down as a Norfolk record as it was about 100 yards over the border.
Last night I had my earliest ever Grey Pine Carpet, yet on this same site, there is still no evidence of several of the earlier species. Strange season this!
Brian
Well done Brian! I thought they would be found at other sites and glad my alert has helped people to get out and find this elusive species. If we get some sunshine in the next few days I’ll try a few other places I’ve thought of to see this moth. Didn’t have any luck at Suffolk water park last weekend but the weather wasn’t perfect, but this year that seems to be the case every day…
Neil