Maybe 🤔 just a little it😁

No, not, you don't want to be bothering with that , says he already checking out Alder 😉

Lots of Mottled Umber catterpillars on a local Elm hedge today. Nothing in the moth trap last night so had to get my moth fix looking for catterpillars instead 😊 #teammoth

My work here is done 😀😀😀

Well done you 😁😁😁😊 you're becoming an addict 😀

Yes , that's it, Healthy , friendly competition, all in the best interest of furthering moth conservation of course, yes definitely, just that. But 89 is in the lead.... just saying, all friendly like 😉

Don't know what you mean! 🤪 😁

Wow, that's quite something 😊

A Wogan awaited me in the trap this morning, so been searching for catterpillars to make up for it. Coleophora on wild plum, one of the spinella trio ( its a rear and then gen det to find out which!). Then Teleiodes vulella in a leaf fold on Hawthorn.

Hey but its still one more closer 😉😄

We need to persuade him to produce more volumes 😄

Good find 👍 but yeah keep it quiet from SO89 folks, they might send you the pic of the one they found too 😉😉😀

My excuse is in our plantation the trees are 60 ft + tall so could only look at the fallen branches! 😄

You'll be off looking at Stitchwort next then 😁😁

Nice one 👍. Yeah right, easy ......! Well yes when you look at the right tree 😉😄

Oh all right then completely convinced 😁 well I am now 😉

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Checking out a tiny lane with lots of greater stitchwort on the verges. Found a few plants with feeding signs and one case. Fairly sure with the angle its Southern Stitchwort case bearer, Coleophora solitarella. About a mile from the other staffs records. #teammoth

I've been looking for Coleophora laricella for over a year now in a mature Larch plantation at baggeridge, no joy. Turns out of you stand on the back of a landrover to look at the scrappy little larch on the car park you can find one in a matter of seconds 😀 #teammoth

Meanwhile at the baggeridge mv, very much two ends of the spectrum on the Frosted Green front ! Frosted Green was a new park record in 2025 so nice to see them back 😊 #teammoth

Cheers Steve, wasn't on my radar at all. Was pretty chuffed with the one at the park but in the garden!!!!

Dotted Chestnut 😊😊😊😊 NFG after one at baggeridge in Feb which was my first.

Things are picking up 😊 Amongst the Quakers there were 2 Lunar Marbled Browns a lovely fresh Purple Thorn several pus inc first Oak tree pug of the year and another Streamer 😊 #teammoth

Hope things turn out ok. And you get more compensatory nfgs. We need you on here to put the staffs rivalry into perspective and keep us jealous 🙂 take care

Yep, brilliant morning read, do love a parasite 😁

Cheers Les 👍

Thank you, got to keep that buffer as you keep getting closer 😉. Missed the Burton record 😁

Happy bunny! Just found Coleophora albitarsella at baggeridge. Case on underside of Ground I've. Could see the pale feeding window so.looked underneath, bingo 😊 looks like 1 other record in staffs, Dovedale 1950! #teammoth @vc39moths.bsky.social

Went looking at Blackthorn for something a bit more stripey, (Argyresthia albisria , Dark Blackthorn tip moth). Not really sure what I actually found! ObsID reckons Winter moth or Herald. Think Winter moth more likely if not something else entirely! #teammoth

Yeah, its not much more than a fat grub 😁. Have to say that Lapwings displaying is right up there for birding spectacle, love em 😊