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Steve @pertonmoths.bsky.social · 7h

Nice new mine today, Phyllonorycter strigulatella on Grey Alder. New one for me and new record for Baggeridge 🙂 #teammoth

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Steve @pertonmoths.bsky.social · 1d

Spent a lot of time last year checking for an anal comb! Tricky little blighters when you're trying to photograph their bums 😄

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Steve @pertonmoths.bsky.social · 1d

Opened up a Teasel head in the garden, no larva but full of frass in the centre. Endothenia gentianaeana I suspect, which will be NFG. Need to open up the other heads to double check. Plant it, and they will come 😊 #teammoth

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Les Evans-Hill @lesevanshill.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday, @britentsoc.bsky.social published the 4th edition of the popular Field Guide to the Smaller Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. Completely updated and free to download in 3 digital formats: PDF, spreadsheet, and an Android App! Further details at www.benhs.org.uk/publications... #TeamMoth

A FIELD GUIDE TO THE SMALLER MOTHS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND (4th Edition-Digital) - British Entomological & Natural History Society

www.benhs.org.uk

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Steve @pertonmoths.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like it ought to be heating a factory unit! 😁

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Steve @pertonmoths.bsky.social · 2d

Needs to get under the microscope for a better look, but I might have Stigmella atricapitella on Oak. Egg underside, looks like it has dark "prothoracic sclerites"? Only one found today with somebody home. Leafmining in Endon, takes me a while to clear mum in-laws path of leaves!! 😁 #teammoth

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Steve @pertonmoths.bsky.social · 2d

Blimey, that's quite a piece of work !!

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Steve @pertonmoths.bsky.social · 3d

Ended up with 24/8 last night Mottled Umber,8 Feathered Thorns, a Merv, and Vines Rustic. 4 Yellow line Quakers, but they were all a bit washed out. It was just a single LBAM in the home trap mind, rest were all at baggeridge #teammoth

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Steve @pertonmoths.bsky.social · 3d

I've let them know, but its not exactly a complaint, new moth, so I can't complain, worth 75p 😁

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Steve @pertonmoths.bsky.social · 3d

It's in a pot and already burrowing into a slice of wholemeal 👍 if it turns out to be Indian meal moth, it'll be a new one for me. Technically I guess its a record for wherever the bread was packed, but I'll take it. like the colony of kuehniella we had in the baggeridge office. In the Hen feed bin😊

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Steve @pertonmoths.bsky.social · 4d

They picked the right person to sell a catterpillar loaf to 😁 this will be my second supermarket moth ( time for another list) the first was a crimson speckled that crawled out of a bag of coriander 😊

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Steve @pertonmoths.bsky.social · 4d

Anyone know their meal moth caterpillars ? Just opened a loaf of bread to find this little fella, thinking it might be Indian Meal moth?
Going to keep it fed on wholemeal and see if I can rear it. Suppose I ought to make a complaint, but well, it could be a new moth for me. #teammoth

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Steve @pertonmoths.bsky.social · 5d

Och aye 🙂

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Steve @pertonmoths.bsky.social · 5d

Two new records for Baggeridge Stigmella samiatella on Chestnut and Stigmella salicis on Sallow.😊 #teammoth