More May Moths

The Buff Tip moth is one of my favourites, looking just like a snapped off birch twig, though it also frequents other species of deciduous tree. The Treble Lines moth is also one that I caught in June last year. It flies from May to July, its caterpillars eating plantain.

The two new species are the Marbled Minor, actually one of a trio of closely related species that feed on grasses, and the Rush Veneer, that also feeds on clover and grasses. The latter species is an immigrant from the continent that occurs in UK in large numbers sometimes, but usually later in the summer - this is quite an early record.

#603 Treble Lines (Charanyca trigrammica)

#612 Buff Tip (Phalera bucephala)

#752 Marbled Minor (Oligia strigilis agg)

#753 Rush Veneer (Nomophila noctuella)