Saturday 8 July 2017

Dioryctria sylvestrella?

Could I have an opinion as to the identification of the attached. Thankyou
Steve Lockey  (Garsington)

4 comments:

  1. Can you give an accurate wing length or wingspan please?

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  2. Peter,as you can see it was on the leaves when I went out and I took a quick shot. examining the size of the plant and my photo I can only estimate I'm afraid. 15-20mm I would say.

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  3. I am asking because there are 2 bigger ones and 2 smaller ones (4 species in total for the UK). That sounds like one of the bigger ones which means it is either abietella or sylvestrella and judging by the sub-terminal lines squiggles, yours is abietella

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  4. Thanks Peter, Abietella it is. A few to many squiggles!.

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