Rhyacionia pinicolana

    Smooth Pine Shoot Moth

    TortricidaeABH 49.306 B&F 1211

    Recorded most years in very small numbers.  For a moth associated with Scots pine Pinus sylvestris, it is oddly absent from many of the upland areas where it might be expected to be commonest in Somerset.

    Adult Verification Grade: 2

    Orange-spotted Shoot (Rhyacionia pinicolana) photographed in Somerset by John Bebbington
    Orange-spotted Shoot (Rhyacionia pinicolana) photographed in Somerset by Sue Davies