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Adela reaumurella (Linnaeus, 1758) common name: The Green Longhorn.
Wingspan 14-18 mm.
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Adelidae (longhorn moths)
Flight Season: May to June.
A day flying moth, sometimes will be seen in the spring sunshine flying in swarms, close to the tops of trees and large bushes.
A widespread and fairly common species throughout the United Kingdom, although rarer the more north you go into Scotland, more local in Ireland. Adela reaumurella is also found across Europe, although missing on the Iberian Peninsula. Across the temperate Palearctic into Japan, in the south, the species is also found in Sicily and Anatolia.
Habitat: Open meadows, woodlands, hedgerows, heathland, country gardens and parks. Wherever the larval food plants are growing. The caterpillars feed among the leaf litter of Quercus, (mainly oak and birch leaves), they encase themselves within an oblong enveloped shaped case leaf, pupation takes place for the following Springtime.
The male antennas are much longer than the female’s antennas, also the males have more hair on their heads and thorax; both sexes have the green and bronze metallic colours on their upper wings.
Read MoreWingspan 14-18 mm.
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Adelidae (longhorn moths)
Flight Season: May to June.
A day flying moth, sometimes will be seen in the spring sunshine flying in swarms, close to the tops of trees and large bushes.
A widespread and fairly common species throughout the United Kingdom, although rarer the more north you go into Scotland, more local in Ireland. Adela reaumurella is also found across Europe, although missing on the Iberian Peninsula. Across the temperate Palearctic into Japan, in the south, the species is also found in Sicily and Anatolia.
Habitat: Open meadows, woodlands, hedgerows, heathland, country gardens and parks. Wherever the larval food plants are growing. The caterpillars feed among the leaf litter of Quercus, (mainly oak and birch leaves), they encase themselves within an oblong enveloped shaped case leaf, pupation takes place for the following Springtime.
The male antennas are much longer than the female’s antennas, also the males have more hair on their heads and thorax; both sexes have the green and bronze metallic colours on their upper wings.
