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Micro and larva ID help please (2 Viewers)

Brian Stone

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I have just returned from a very interesting trip to Scotland visiting upper Tayside and Ardnamurchan. I managed to run a trap on a few nights and found a couple of larva and would appreciate some help with a micro and two larvae please. Pics are linked here. The micro was trapped on a wooded hillside in Glen Lyon and had a forewing of about 8mm. Both larvae were in coastal moorland habitat near Ardnamurchan Point. If I remember rightly the first is about 30mm long and the second perhaps 50mm or more.

http://pbc.codehog.co.uk/images/moths/larva1_apr_04a.jpg
http://pbc.codehog.co.uk/images/moths/larva1_apr_04b.jpg
http://pbc.codehog.co.uk/images/moths/larva2_apr_04a.jpg
http://pbc.codehog.co.uk/images/moths/larva2_apr_04b.jpg
http://pbc.codehog.co.uk/images/moths/mico_sp_apr_04.jpg

I will post a report and some pics of the many moths recorded shortly. Thanks very much.
 
Well I'm new at this so hopefully someone more experienced will either confirm or correct me. However to me, the first lava seems to be either of:

Square-spot Rustic (Xestia xanthographa)
or
Six-striped Rustic (Xestia sexstrigata)

The hairy one looks like:
Drinker Moth (Euthrix potatoria)

No hope of me even guessing the micro :)

Alan
 
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