Friday 27 September 2019

A few mines on hawthorn and sallow

Phyllonorycter corylifoliella (Hubner, 1796) on Hawthorn, on a lush plant, heading down towards the Whetsted gravel pits, a fairly classic view of what is said to be a quite common leafminer, from what I can see on the internet. The second image is just a closer crop of the first.


and a closer view:


Here is another mine, again the second image is just a closer view of the first. An older version of the same leaf miner species, or more likely to be Ectodoemia atricollis, with maybe a narrow channel of a mine along the margin of the leaf to start with.




This next one might be a developing Ectoedemia mine, a full depth yellowish mine, with the larva still in it I think! There might be a bit of a thin mine along the edge. Again the second image is just a tighter crop. Ectoedemia atricollis, (Stainton, 1857), the pinch-barred pigmy, which does mine leaves from the end of August through to October.




and this one might be a better developed mine of the same species,




Here is a photo of a galled willow leaf.




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