Visited Wolves wood this lunchtime to try and see Micropterix mansuetella. I checked the Hawthorn bush where adults had been found by Paul earlier this week, but most of the flowers were out of reach and were not viewable. After reading in books that the moth can be found on Sedge flowers, I checked all the flowering Sedge I could find along the ride leading away from the bush, and managed to locate at least 20 Micropterix mansuetella with relative ease feeding on the heads. There were also quite a few Micropterix calthella present too but it was easy to pick out the mansuetella because of their black heads. So that one Hawthorn bush is not the only place the moths are in the wood!
Neil
Well done Neil. Another good excuse to disappear to Wolves Wood one lunchtime this week.