Nemapogon ruricolella - <p>Two new dissection confirmations I gave some moths for dissection to Graeme back on the 08th of July to look at. </p> <p>One was an unusual asymmetrical Pug which looked very odd indeed and we both couldn't place it at the time. </p> <p>The other was a Nemapogon species and looked a little paler than the Nemapogon cloacella that I regularly get in the garden. </p> <p>Both specimens were part of a catch of moths made on the 06th of July. </p> <p>The Pug turns out to be my latest ever Oak-tree Pug, with the previous latest a whole month earlier on 06/06/13! The books do state that they can straggle on until late July in some years but i've never experienced that myself. </p> <p>The Nemapogon is Nemapogon ruricolella and a pleasing addition to the garden list and being only the 3rd species of Nemapogon for the garden joining cloacella (of course) and clematella (oddly). </p> <p>Here are the pictures, Nemapogon ruricolella wasn't a new moth for me as on the 19th of June I recorded one at Home Wood in Bedfordshire (pic attached for a comparison to my garden specimen). </p> © Ben Sale from UK - CC BY 2.0 - Wikimedia Commons
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