Tortricodes

Description: Catch Report - 16/02/12 - Farmland/Back Garden - Hertfordshire Another mild night and the Moths came in 3x3 with 3 each of Chestnut, Satellite and Spring Usher. New for the year was a single Tortricodes alternella, a moth I don't get very often in my garden, but where I have recorded 300+ individuals within mature oak woodland in a single night in previous years. Very pleased with the last two nights of trapping but unfortunately it is not to last, as we are expecting a cold front for the next few nights into early next week, so the trap is packed away again! Catch Report - 16/02/12 - 125w MV Robinson Trap - Back Garden/Farmland Macro Moths 3x Chestnut 3x Spring Usher 3x Satellite Micro Moths 1x Tortricodes alternella [NFY]. Date: 17 February 2012, 09:17. Source: [1025] Tortricodes alternella. Author: Ben Sale from UK.

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.

Description: Tortricodes alternella ?. Date: 25 February 2011, 10:37. Source: Tortricodes alternella ?. Author: gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K. Camera location52° 07′ 18.82″ N, 2° 23′ 24.77″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 52.121895; -2.390213.