On the 16th of July I was asked if I would help with some moth trapping at Heligan Garden with the Cornwall and Butterfly Moth Group, we had several traps running that evening.
I set up my trap just outside the wall of the garden looking out towards the sea, there were a few pine trees near the wall. On that evening I had a total of 67 species, with a few of the best being Ringed China-marked, Oak nyctoline, Blastobasis lacticolella, Phycitodes binaevella, but one moth stood out to me as to one to check further, it looked a bit like Dioryctria abietella which is quite common and feeds on pine shoots and cones, but this moth was a lot larger with a different wing pattern, it turned out to be Dioryctria sylvestrella, which is a local recently established, I emailed Leon Truscott the County Moth recorder for Cornwall and it turned out to be the 9th record for Cornwall. It also feeds on pine trees. Frank Johns
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