Tapping hedges

 

I stopped briefly on the way back from school this morning to sweep/tap some hedges near Llangattock-Vibon-Avel (NE Monmouthshire).  They were hard work, as is often the case early in the morning, but a couple of Udea olivalis and Tortrix viridana flew out, as did a White Plume.  Slightly better was a Wood Carpet, but surprise find was a Celypha rivulana.  It's easy enough to overlook this species and its lookalike C. cespitana among the commonplace C. lacunana, but the lack of a pale patch on the central band is distinctive.  I'm 99% certain it's C. rivulana, with relatively broad wings, but as it would be new for VC35 I will need to gen det it.

 

A couple of days earlier I tapped a dusky little Grapholita tenebrosana from a hedge at Dingestow - only the 5th county record.  Please get out and tap those hedges!