stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026somebody once told me parasites 'get' well over 60% of Neps, Phyllos etc - too easy for these micro-wasps to spot mines and leaf folds.... 110
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 14/09/2026SBS - snap - one here in Worcester O/N ! 020
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 03/09/2026there are a lot of 'Billy No Mates' out there I am afraid....or just plain selfish? 020
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This bird has the greatest carbon footprint provider of any in recent years surely. Some people have been 7 times! 000
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Pity there was no larva in 3rd image - colour of that could have clinched an interesting potential mine! Last W Mids Atlas records show mine at SK11 in Sept 2002 and Trench Wood Wo in Oct 1995 so seems to have dropped off the menu. 110
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Snap; 2 amplana here in Worcester too plus a whole host of potted local goodie micros; fusca, oblitella, limbella and so forth! 020
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 10/08/2026How many more times am I gonna read 'escaped while I was trying to get better shot' - quality clean glass pots - end of problem! 110
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Could still be at Feckenham Wild Moor - every time I go hoping for Elachistas I get a plague of hornets instead!!! 010
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Careful there are also Small Golden-rod and Scarce Golden-rods.....! 010
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Worth measuring the width of the 'isthmus' on the juncta Burnished Brass" If its 4mm or more a contender for Cryptic Burnished Brass - if indeed that actually exists outside Asia?! 110
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Not a lot of climate change as we skirted Manchester Airport at 07:45 this morning - thick drizzle and light rain (is it always the same?) 110
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Guessing all of your 'migrants' are in Hants residents! 110
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Was delighted to get an invite into Andrew Gardener's Stourbridge home and superb garden, just in VC37, yesterday to see his rather tired Passenger which had arrived overnight! 030
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Trouble with Common English Names - no consistency; some what adults look like, some what larva looks like, some after what larvae feed on others plucked out of folklore myths! Make yer mind up lads! Bit like Moth VAR!!! 010
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Had the POM lure out since Sunday. Yesterday evening this was potted up from inside. First for VC37. Following one in Redditch on Friday night (Warks?). Not sure if 2 of us locals have been extremely lucky - no obvious NW movement from Upper Thames area broadcast yet... Cydia interscindana 080
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 29/06/2026First for UK's are almost occurring every few days ATM so you never know.😜 100
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 29/06/2026ObsID says Blastobasis adustella at 25% so guess its in that ball park... 210
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I may be incorrect but I think its obvious look-alke Oxypterix unicolorella has pretty all darkish antennae (IMO Ben!) 010
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 14/06/2026After last year's single near Stourport VC37, 2 more Bohemannia auriciliellas tapped out of nearby Blackthorn in last week. Can we learn something about its Biology that few Brits seemed to have cottoned onto yet. 030
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Great to see it appears to be thriving ! 020
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 15/05/2026My colleague at Stourport-on-Severn is currently netting 15 to 30 species of micro a day, locally during the sunny spells. He found 3rd for Worcs yesterday. I think the moth-ing community gets too hung up on moth-traps and gardens! 270
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I have caught Gypsy Moth in a trap washed and dried out 6 weeks earlier!! 130
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 06/05/2026A couple more from the saltmarsh session at Pegwell Bay, Kent last Friday the 1st May. What looks like a great example of Scrobipalpa obsoletella and a rather bland Platyedra subcinerea. 020
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Thought to be extinct - a colony of White-spotted Pinions were discovered in Worcs in mid 2000s. The habitat does not look that special and the elms still heavily diseased ! Have seen it at Wicken Fen though so not a lost cause! 230
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 23/04/2026First suspected 'Pammene suspectana ' to FUN Lure yesterday afternoon. Never knowingly had albuginana in April here. 010
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I thought The Irishman was a lurker in your garden! 110
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Pammene agnotana on wood near a lure at one of it's central England strongholds mid-afternoon yesterday. Probably under-recorded - I tried for 6 hours with MOL/FUN/SKI at an Oxon woodland last year, around this time in strong sunshine - not a sniff! 010
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Bit of an enigma - Acleris lipsiana at what was thought to be England's best location for the species. Ecstatic with the first, 'comfortably numb' by the last at dawn. I can confirm it is now. (Thanks to Iain Leach for support on the night and the image) 020
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Should be banned - no name, no game! 100
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Probably the best 2 consecutive days in late March ever!! 010
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 23/03/2026You wait 20 Years for a Worcester garden Blossom Underwing -then two come along on the same night😍 (22 March) 080
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Best looking Moth at Monkwood NR (Worcs) on Friday night was this 'conjoined stigma' Common Quaker? The Pale Pinion was a close second. 050
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 15/03/2026One of 80 male Bankesia conspurcatella to HYL lure in southern England yesterday, in calm, early morning sunshine by a old weathered fence from 07:00 to 08:40 at least. They are out there! 031
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 08/03/2026saw some pretty big one's in the crevices of Sleat Quarry, Portland last August"! 010
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Only my third ever garden Yellow Horned here in Worcester; (last was 24 Feb 2011). There was an easterly breeze so guess it's just wafted in from nearby Trench Wood or beyond. 10 other species including 2 Diurnea fagella. 0111
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Chris Balchin, Barry Reed and Bob Henry showing well! 010
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Following a tip-off via IRecord, I found several mines of Phyllonorycter pastorella on a small NR near Worcester Uni on Thursday. Image of Crack Willow leaf with typical almost rectangular mine and pupal case protruding. The first adult emerged early afternoon today. Another regional first! 040
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Following on from one at Winyates, Redditch exactly 2 years ago now a true VC37 Clancy's Rustic at Warndon, Worcester O/N - one of 30 species recorded. 000
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2025bird clearly has an extensive dark grey rump so not a true White - possibly a hybrid from the NW of the UK mainland.... 110
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 31/07/2025To say that the history of Buttoned Snout in Worcs is puzzling is a understatement! Only 3 records between 1899 and 1975, despite an extensive Hop Growing area west of River Severn. Gap of 43 years and now resident in small numbers. Waited 21 years here at Warndon then 2 come along in one night! 020
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 23/07/2025That't what I have been calling them for 15 years - no gen dets as this is another Job's Worth's moth! 030
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 21/07/2025We could always try getting out in the field away from our gardens and looking rather than hoping everything is gonna be directed by some wishful thinking signs! 120
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Balsam may be new for "Warwickshire" hot on the heals of Staffs and Worcs recent firsts.... (No 'at a glance' online Atlas for Vice County! That needs to be sorted.) 140
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 16/07/2025You could probably write a chapter on each of the previous 6 birds and why they were not seen/shared. Shot, Politics, Paranoia, Incompetence, No Mobile Phones and Lack of Internet but not necessarily in that order! 010
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Careful with Field Trips Ruth - that's how I got totally addicted! 110
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 13/06/2025It's only taken 20 years to get a Warndon, garden one but it seems they all turn up in the end! Jarrad Tibbett's came round to admire it and brought me the second good migrant in Worcs this month - Small Mottled Willow from Wilden Top last night. VC37 010
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Ian Machin's netting skills and observation came good again with the rediscovery of Phyllonorycter kuhlweiniella - swept off Oak leaves at Hartlebury Common, Worcs yesterday evening. almost 148 years since the last at Old Hills on 14th May 1877 050
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Used to remark on some very large individuals on Purbeck in the late autumn....like you say Steve almost look like different species.... 020
stevetortrix.bsky.social @stevetortrix.bsky.social · 25/04/2025If its as grey and freckly its canapennella. Stopped gen-detting these years ago as they were all that species....no point in continuing an annual mini cull! 020
