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Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society Founded
- 1877
Charities Registration No.:508729
Minutes of the 4th Indoor Meeting of the 123rd Session (1999/00):
Held on 18th January 2000 at Frodsham Community Center commencing at
7.30 p.m.
The President in the Chair and thanks to Alan Creaser for taking the
minutes, due to the absence of the Hon. Secretary through sickness.
1. Apologies for absence: M. Barlow, S.W. Holmes, S. Judd, C.
Felton, T. Mawdsley, M. Taylor.
Visitor to the meeting - Colin Hart, special interest the microlepidoptera
.
2. Minutes of the last Ordinary Indoor Meeting: Will be distributed
at the next meeting.
3. Correspondence: No correspondence.
4. Any Other Business: Meeting is being arranged by Stephen
Palmer for BENHS at Formby Sands on 12th August, day meeting plus night
trapping, more details to follow.
5. Notes, Observations and Exhibits:
- Exhibits by Alan Creaser - Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera - Hesperioidea,
Pyrginae, one specimen of Pyrgus malvae Linn. From Costaros
in the Auvergne, where it was very abundant at the roadsides in the
first week of June 1998. This species can very easily be confused
with similar species. Dr Roger Ainley confirmed its identity and an
English Specimen taken in the New Forest May 17th 1929 by R.N. Snell
was included for comparison. Nymphalidae, Melitaea phoebe D
& S. one worn specimen of this locally very common species about Pelasque,
in the Alpes Maritimes, late June 1998.
- Exhibit by Dave Poynton - Leaves from Pyracantha showing mines of
Phyllonorycter leucographella collected in Cambridge were exhibited.
Records of the moth\mines in Cheshire show 1999 to be the year when
it appears to have established itself in the County. Steve Hind has
found it commonly this autumn in various supermarket car parks. DJP
has found it at Prestbury on a neighbor's hedge - but not on the variegated
Pyracantha in his own garden. Mines collected in December produced
no moths - but c 10 mines collected In March in Cambridge and stored
did produce one moth. Mines have also been found on an established
Pyracantha in his father's garden in Boothstown, Nr Worsley, Manchester
where the bush shows severe infestation.
- Carl Clee noted that he had seen recently a specimen of Inachis
io Linn. (Nymphalidae) on the wing at Stanlow.
- Prompted by Dave Poynton's exhibit there then ensued a discussion
on adventive species of insects likes Dave's Phyllonorycter spp. The
vector often being the local garden center. Mike Hull said there was
nothing new in this and cited Hofmannophila pseudospretella
Staint. (Oecophoridae) originally from India as an example. He noted
too that Blastobasis lignea Wals. Though fairly frequent in
the U.K. is not found on the continent but occurs in Madeira.
- Julia Hancell showed material on Bio Diversity
- 1. Nice booklet by English Nature\Countryside Commission Ideas\Action
Local Agenda.
- 2. An updated revision of Countdown 99 - a 2000 Vision.
- 3. CCC Unitary Authority - report on 12 months working with
Warrington\Halton, ..forum, completed audit for Halton (conservation
strategy).
- Ian Smith read a poem from 'Hen and the Oriole' about Archie the
Earwig, very good, his phone number (not Archie's) I don't have, sorry!
Ian also showed a big slug UGH! Sp Limax cinerioniger - didn't look
at it much, but it is said to live in the woodland substrate and is
an indicator species for ancient woodland on sloping sites and is
in danger (thank God) (my opinion!).
- Mike Hull showed two books 'Atlas Genitalia of the Tortricidae of
France and Belgium' by Jean-Pierre Chambon published by I.N.R.A. and
Vol 1 'Handbook of the Palaearctic' the Sessidae.
6. Presidential Address: "Lepidoptera Recording on Nature
Reserves" by Mike Hull See attached. This prompted discussion on
the undesirability of using only one form of collecting strategy when
in a particular area.
Marion Barlow (LCES Hon.Sec.)
January 2000
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