If anyone’s interested .. it may not be too late to go looking for Large Red-belted Clearwing. I was reading moth blog on ‘www.planetthanet.org’ the other night and noticed a posting which read …
“16/5/12. Afternoon visit to Blean Woods. Rather cloudy almost immediately with only short sunny spells and a surprisingly stiff breeze at times. Not really ideal, but 3 Large Red-belted Clearwings came in to the pheromones including the aberrant – flavocingulata with a yellowish white band.”
I was at Sutton Common on Sunday (for Wood Warbler) and checked a few birch stumps on my way back to the car for pupal cases, but drew a blank. I didn’t have time to try any of the other sites.
I would say that going on the current trend this season LRB clearwing may well be just coming out. Hope to go looking this weekend so thanks for the tip off Paul.
Neil