The new ones took me a while to identify, and I am yet to hear from JS with verification. They were a Scarce Bordered Straw, and a Grey Pine Carpet. The latter is very similar to the Spruce Carpet, but after much deliberation I have decided it was this species.
Scarce Bordered Straw |
Grey Pine Carpet |
Red-green Carpet |
The moth is an irregular visitor to Warwickshire. There were none in 2016, 20 in 2017, and one in 2018.
While searching the fence for additional moths, I came across a quite extraordinary looking Harvestman species. It turned out to be Dicranopalpus ramosus ag. The ag bit signifies that taxonomists recently split was was the easiest Harvestman to identify because of its super-long legs and split cranial palps into two species only identifiable from a specimen under the microscope.
Dicranopalpus rmaosus ag |
Finally, a Redwing flew over calling.
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