Tony, Paul and Myself went to North cove SWT reserve on Saturday to see if White-barred clearwing had emerged after its discovery there last year by myself. Not perfect conditions for trying for clearwing moths as it was quite breezy with patches of cloud drifting around but there were a few warm sunny spells and it was during one of these early afternoon when we were successful attracting one WB clearwing to my ‘Tip’ pheromone. We then moved on to Carlton marshes and tried there but again conditions were not ideal. There were some warm spells but no clearwings were seen.
Searching around whilst waiting for the sunshine produced a few other records of interest: Glyphipterix thrasonella, Adela croesella, Coleophora follicularis (larval cases on Hemp agrimony), Silver Y (a few), Beautiful golden Y, Adela rufimitrella and Marsh pug (2 at North cove).
Neil
Nice photo Neil. Sunday started of much better than we had originally thought so I went to Lackford to try for both White-barred and Red-tipped. No sign of either despite trying lots of spots. On a positive note, I did see a few Micropterix aruncella.
The Coleophora cases on alder at Carlton Marshes turned out to be C. binderella.