Found new to Nottinghamshire on the site of the former Bevercotes
Colliery as recently as October 2026
(Brownley, N. and Brownley, S.), but this is a very difficult
miner to determine. The early mines of Stigmella glutinosae and
Stigmella alnetella are the two confusion species, however, the
larva of Bucculatrix cidarella exits the mine upperside of the
leaf, while the two Stigmellas both exit underside. There are
some other slight differences, so care must be taken with any
identification.
Thanks go to Nick and Samantha for providing the leaf mines illustrated
below, which were within a sample of mines, which did include
Stigmella glutinosae. |
