It's about this time of year that my attention turns to leaf mines. The majority of species mine leaves between September and October. Generally I compile a list of around 20 species, but even though the garden has changed very little as far as hosts are concerned, the species list varies quite considerable and has never been the same from one year to another. Once again I have added new species to the garden list. The top two images are the newbies and below those are are few that I'm not sure about.........
260 Leucoptera malifoliella
NFG- This was found on Conference Pear. Again only one mine found.
Mine on Birch?
Not sure on this one, very small. Could just be an aborted L. clerkella mine.
99 Stigmella hybnerella
On Hawthorn- very common
Mine on Hawthorn?
Stigmella Sp. on Bramble
Full list below- Sept/Oct
0050 Stigmella aurella Bramble, NFY
0075 Stigmella floslactella Hornbeam, NFY
0099 Stigmella hybnerella Hawthorn, NFY
0111 Stigmella microtheriella Hazel, NFY
0254 Laburnum Leaf Miner (Leucoptera laburnella) Laburnham, NFY
0260 Pear Leaf Blister Moth (Leucoptera malifoliella) Pear, NFG
0263 Apple Leaf Miner (Lyonetia clerkella)
0272 Bucculatrix cidarella Alder, NFY
0275 Bucculatrix bechsteinella Hawthorn, NFY
0293 Caloptilia syringella Lilac/Forsythia, NFY
0303 Parornix anglicella
0304 Parornix devoniella Hazel, NFY
0323 Phyllonorycter oxyacanthae Hawthorn, NFY
0332 Phyllonorycter corylifoliella Hawthorn, NFY
0345 Phyllonorycter rajella Alder, NFY
0353 Phyllonorycter ulmifoliella Birch, NFY
0358 Phyllonorycter froelichiella Alder, NFY
0360 Phyllonorycter kleemannella Alder, NFY
luteella - no they are Lyonetia clerkella as the larvae of clerkella have a very distinctive bobbly Michelin Man shape like these.
ReplyDeletemalifoliella - yes
no3 unidentifiable
No4 - Stigmella hybridella
No5 Not identifiable
no6 well probably aurella - you would need to breed splendidissimella to prove it.