. British journal of entomology and natural history. Natural history; Entomology. BR. J. ENT. NAT. HIST., 10; 1997 BENHS FIELD MEETINGS Welshbury Hill, near Cinderford, Gloucestershire, 25 June 1994 Leader: Paul Waring. This was a joint evening and night-time meeting between the BENHS, the Gloucestershire Invertebrate Group and Butterfly Conservation. It was attended by 22 people, including 14 members of the BENHS. Welshbury Hill (Fig. 1) is the site of an iron-age hill fort, now largely overgrown with small-leaved lime Tilia cordata Miller. Presumably there was formerly good visibility from t
. British journal of entomology and natural history. Natural history; Entomology. BR. J. ENT. NAT. HIST., 10; 1997 BENHS FIELD MEETINGS Welshbury Hill, near Cinderford, Gloucestershire, 25 June 1994 Leader: Paul Waring. This was a joint evening and night-time meeting between the BENHS, the Gloucestershire Invertebrate Group and Butterfly Conservation. It was attended by 22 people, including 14 members of the BENHS. Welshbury Hill (Fig. 1) is the site of an iron-age hill fort, now largely overgrown with small-leaved lime Tilia cordata Miller. Presumably there was formerly good visibility from the fort but it seems that some of the stools of lime coppice extend out on both sides of the earth ramparts and therefore pre-date them. Small-leaved Hme is the only larval foodplant of the rare scarce hook-tip Sabra harpagula (Esp.) in Britain, and the moth is only known from the Wye Valley woodlands on the borders of Gloucestershire with Monmouthshire and formerly (1837-1938) from Leigh Woods in the Avon Gorge near Bristol (Emmet & Heath, 1991). One of the aims of this meeting was to see if this moth could be found in other old lime woods outlying the Wye Valley/Forest of Dean area. Another was to begin to discover the existing moth interest of the site and consider how it might be affected by different management options, such as clearing trees from the areas of archaeological interest, mass thinnings or fellings of the apparently rather even-aged lime stands, or feUing of smaller coups on rotation. No scarce hook-tip was seen during the field meeting at Welshbury Hill, despite the operation of 17 mercury vapour lights and one actinic trap in or near stands of hme, even though the moth was recorded by a group including the leader and various members the previous night at its known haunts near Tintern. Return visits to Welshbury Hill were made by Bernard Skinner on , and by Paul Waring, Ray Barnett and Andy Pym with three light traps on , but again no
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