Some recent leaf-mines

I’ve spent a few afternoons recently doing some searching for leaf-mines and Olive Crescent larvae in south Suffolk. It seems more productive for leaf-mines than last year already, although macro-larvae seem to have been a bit thin on the ground. I’ve seen Stigmella aceris mines in most of the sites I’ve visited including Tattingstone, Capel St. Mary and Raydon.

One sighting of particular of interest was that of Chrysoesthia sexguttella mines on what appears to be Grass-leaved Orache Atriplex littoralis. C. sexguttella is a scarce species for us based on the records and would be well worth looking out for – I found these ones in the road-verge of a country lane.

Tony

 

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