A tortricoid moth new to Suffolk

At Dunwich Heath on the night of Sunday 6 April Clive Moore caught the rather splendid and exquisite ‘conifer moth’ Gravitarmata margarotana

Margarotana

Photo by M. J. Deans

Known as the Pine Cone Tortrix and new to Britain from Kent as recently as 2011, I have only traced one other record since, from Leicestershire in 2013.  This record is therefore, most probably, the third for Britain. 

It will be interesting to see if further individuals turn up in the Dunwich area.  It may, of course, have been a migrant.  There are pine trees near to Clive’s trap on the heath.

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