Noctuids 2 - Xyleninae
Saxon (Hyppa rectilinea)
Up to November 2015 only 7 records of 9 individual had been seen in Ireland, mostly in SW. One was discovered in Glenariff, before in 2018 a population was found in a North Antrim wood and I have seen them annually ever since. A second population up in the Antrim Hills a couple of years later .
Saxon larvae
Location: North Antrim
Photographer: Geoff Campbell