This is another of my ‘I think it might be this but it might not be’ posts. One of the people I follow on Twitter (I refuse to call it X) has begun sharing a ‘Lepidoptera leafmines to find’ monthly post, and one of this month’s six is Bucculatrix bechsteinella, found on Hawthorn.

The post warns that Bucculatrix bechsteinella (also known as Hawthorn bent-wing) ‘may be confused with those of Paraswammwerdammia nebulella, which tend to be smaller, more numerous and with irregular exits and occurring anywhere on the leaf, but those of B. bechsteinella usually occur in a vein axil.’ This description leads me to think my finds are correct but I’ll need to await verification of my records to be sure. (You can see the adult moth on the UK Moths website.)