Butterflies and Moths 2022

Genus: Leaf roller Moths 

Zo, what are you using for your id's? thats not a British/European species - I would think it's more like Cacoecimorpha pronubana -Carnation Tortix

If you are using an App like iNaturalist be cautious as it has a very strong American bias, I'm currently trialing Obsidentify which is European based and so far it's proving pretty good - when it's not 100% sure it at least sends me in the right direction to find the answer in books esp when Im dealing with plants

I did think it might be abit absurd so I decided to look into it and Iv only just seen your comment. I probably should of looked into it before labelling which I normally do.
Iv removed the Name so it doesn’t mislead anyone until it’s been identified. .

Walked my transects today, getting them done early as prepping for travels this week.  I'm so glad I did - numbers were a little low on my first site but Bear got to say hello to lots of people and then we watched about 1200 motor bikes take nearly 20 minutes to negotiate a hairpin bend on a big charity ride out . I only took the phone out with me for photos

Clouded Silver moth

Speckled Wood investigating the salt on a Limpit shell

After I dropped bear home I headed off to my second and longer site.  When I got there I had one of those internal conversations - was it worth it?  the wind had picked up and there was some cloud about and, and ... but I pulled myself together and set off and with the big camera -  I have been concerned about the low numbers and worried about the really poor showing of Common Blue 

Pleased to say that Common Blue were about at my favourite part and I also saw Small Heath and decent numbers of Green Hairstreak

But the one that left me with a really big grin on my face was this very unexpected delight 

Long-tailed Blue

Some lovely spots there, never seen Long-tailed Blue or Clouded Sliver Moth.
Trevor

Small copper

A couple of days ago, before the rain started, this Green-veined White allowed me lots of opportunities to get some nice shots of it on some Sweet Rocket(I think).

Best Wishes,

Trevor

Some properly good shots there Trevor, well done, and thanks for sharing..... What did you bribe him with? Lol

Excellent Trevor, such a wealth of clear detail!