Monday, 21 July 2025

Pachyrhabda or ?

 Continuing my daily checks on Soft Shield-fern in the garden here, and found this (one of two or three) on one plant. What I don't know is what else feeds on fern spores and whether other creatures might produce similar protective spinnings.

Possible Pachyrhabda larval spinning

Less doubt about this rather more attractive little moth:

Acrobasis advenella


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  1. Ina28 July 2025 at 20:43

    Off hand Psychoides filicivora on Hart'sTongue comes to mind http://www.leafmines.co.uk/html/Lepidoptera/P.filicivora5.htm more of a messy lump of sporangia!

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  2. Peter Barnes31 July 2025 at 15:22

    Thanks for the comment and link, Ina. I expect that this is just a very young Psychoides spinning: it's very different to the messy dome-shaped ones that I posted on 1 July, hence this offering!

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