{"id":2059358,"date":"2019-05-28T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=ad122bb1d038914a8fb7489e12a83f31"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:48:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:48:13","slug":"red-belted-clearwing-romsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/red-belted-clearwing-romsey\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-belted Clearwing, Romsey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the winter I purchased a full set of clearwing pheromone lures and a pheromone trap from Anglian Lepidopterist Supplies (ALS) I was keen to see more of these species having only encountered Currant Clearwing and Six-belted Clearwing previously.<\/p>\n

So with a partial day working at home in Romsey and lovely warm and sunny conditions, I studied the range, flight periods and foodplants of the 16 British species and decided to try for Large Red-belted Clearwing using the ‘cul’ lure.<\/p>\n

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Male Red-belted Clearwing – Romsey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After an hour or so I popped outside and was amazed to see a clearwing in the trap, expecting it to be a Large Red-belted I was surprised when I captured the animal and realised it was a stunning fresh Red-belted Clearwing.<\/p>\n

This was an unexpected catch as the species is said to fly from mid-June and comes to the ‘myo’ lure.<\/p>\n

Still, I am not complaining, this was a stunning beast!<\/p>\n

The Red-belted Clearwing is classified as Nationally Notable B but is actually probably more widespread than this status indicates.<\/p>\n

The species is found through south-east England roughly south-east of a line from the River Severn to the Wash.<\/p>\n

The larval foodplant is apple but it has also been recorded from hawthorn, pear, almond, and rowan.<\/p>\n

The species is found in open woodland, gardens and orchards.<\/p>\nSubscribe to our FREE Newsletter<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n

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Over the winter I purchased a full set of clearwing pheromone lures and a pheromone trap from Anglian Lepidopterist Supplies (ALS) I was keen to see more of these species having only encountered Currant Clearwing and Six-belted Clearwing previously. So with a partial day working at home in Romsey and lovely warm and sunny conditions, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1921,"featured_media":2149313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[9847],"class_list":["post-2059358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-red-belted-clearwing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}