This Pale Brindled Beauty (Phigalia pilosaria) is quite well distributed in Ireland. Its larva feeds on a wide variety of broadleaved trees. Its flight season is from January-March. This is a male; the female is wingless.
Monday, 14 March 2016
Pale Brindled Beauty
Here's the first new moth of 2016. We have been trapping moths on the boreen for several years and each year we record additional species for the first time.
This Pale Brindled Beauty (Phigalia pilosaria) is quite well distributed in Ireland. Its larva feeds on a wide variety of broadleaved trees. Its flight season is from January-March. This is a male; the female is wingless.
This Pale Brindled Beauty (Phigalia pilosaria) is quite well distributed in Ireland. Its larva feeds on a wide variety of broadleaved trees. Its flight season is from January-March. This is a male; the female is wingless.
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