Great news:

http://wildupnorth.blogspot.com/2012/03 ... la-re.html

Dave

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Dave

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49906492@N05/
http://eastkentgardenmoths.blogspot.com/

wow! now that is something to shout about, the first sighting in over 120 years.Its not like no one has been looking in all that time either, so I wonder how ? I have not read about any nearby locations so...a possible re-introduction from a foreign source ,accidently or deliberately? I supose the questions remain forever unanswered in such cases.

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Carol

some of my moth pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lapommangels/

Hmmm...re-discovered in England but it is known irregularly from Scotland, and Durham isn't that far from the border Not wanting to diss the importance of this sighting too much, but given how little micro recording goes on in many parts of the country, calling it 'extinct' just because there's no reports since Victorian times is stretching it a bit...

And as for the subject line: 'Durham tinea' :not sure whether they mean that as the common name or not, but it ain't a tinea...

Mike

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Extinct is how you descibe it here http://www.hantsmoths.org.uk/species/0474.php

Brilliant, what an own goal... Ha ha I'll have a word with my copy-writer (and no, I didn't write it, I have a 'man' who did most of these back in the day...!)
Didn't think to check my own site - but to be honest, I have no idea why that was written up that way - it will be changed forthwith

<slinks off into the undergrowth>

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Fixed!

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Please visit the Hantsmoths website at http://www.hantsmoths.org.uk