Saturday, 1 September 2018

Migrant

This morning at Burlish Top, Stourport, I flushed a 'white' moth around the bracken. Without a net, I tracked it around for a few minutes until I could get a reasonable view of it settled. It turned out to be Palpita vitrealis, a rare migrant this far inland. It eventually disappeared and could not be refound. What is the status of this moth in the county?
Posted by at

2 comments:

  1. Oliver Wadsworth2 September 2018 at 17:50

    8 records since 2011 - A nice find, not too many migrants about this year.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Peter Hall2 September 2018 at 17:56

    Across the border in Hereford, we've had about 16 records, and recently one in each of 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017. As Oliver says, so far very few migrants, just a few reports mostly of Convolvulus Hawk from around the country.

    ReplyDelete

Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)