Tortricodes alternella (39750340102)

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Description: Tortricodes alternella flying in the sunshine?!? Today I was walking in Shephalbury Park today in Stevenage with a client when something flying caught my eye, thinking it was just a fly I very nearly carried on but something told me to look again and so I pooped my glasses on and followed it where it settled on a garage wall. This is the first time I have encountered this species flying in the daytime. Also to add that it wasn't particularly warm at 6 degrees, but out of the wind and in the sunshie it must have thought it was Spring! Below is a cropped phone picture of the said moth. This record beats my all-time earliest record by 4 days with one taken to light in the garden during a very mild spell on the 23rd of January in 2016. Date: 17 February 2012, 09:17. Source: Tortricodes alternella. Author: Ben Sale from Stevenage, UK.