SP9326: 14/10/12 - Roll out the Red-green Carpet

A dire month so far - four sessions yielding ten moths of four species - so rather pleased to snag a new* macro for the garden - Red-green Carpet, seen only once before in TL0024 on 18/10/10.

1760* Red-green Carpet

A dullish-brown larva, noted occasionally over the last couple of weeks, was finally photographed and identified as the Dot Moth. The larva is polyphagous but was feeding on an unknown plant whose origin may be explained by the fact that it is growing under the birdseed feeder!

2155 Dot Moth

SP9326: 23/06/12 - Vapourer Moth larva

Discovered a final instar larva (36mm) of 2026* The Vapourer in the garden today, it was feeding on Hydrangea petiolaris (a climbing hydrangea).  The adult has not been encountered here and so this is a new* garden specie.
The plant has yet to flower this summer (unsurprisingly) and, as usual, some of the stems had not made contact with a surface, thus exposing their adventitious roots. The larva was progressing along one of these stems whilst methodically consuming the roots. Indeed, to my mind, the whitish tufts of hair on the dorsum reminded me of these roots.
I can find no reference of this foodplant used by The Vapourer on the  BRC database 'Insects and their Food Plants'.

A field record of Clepsis consimilana (male) was disturbed from Horse Chestnut 100m from garden.

0994 Clepsis consimilana

2026* The Vapourer