In search of the Wild Liquorice Moth...a tip off Last Monday whilst out and about with work, I had a quick walk along a known site for Grapholita pallifrontana, otherwise known as the Wild Liquorice Moth. Luckily to save me time in ssearching, Andy Banthorpe had said that he saw it at Old Warden Tunnel which is a disused railway line left to nature and what a beautiful place it is.

Unfortunately the wind was very strong and upnon finding the foodplant there were no visible signs of the moth sitting on the foodplant, so I gently swept it and on my 4th sweep had what I had come looking for. I did a few more sweeps but no more were found. I can only assume that because of the strong breeze that they were staying lower down on the stems of the plant.

Other bits of interest were several Burnet Companions flying around as well as a few sightings of Burnet Moths.

On Cow Parsley was the striking Lepturinae Rutpela maculata and whilst sweeping grass randomly I turned up a new species of Cerambycidae for me, the pretty Anaglyptus mysticus.