{"id":100,"date":"2009-06-04T03:35:58","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T08:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2009-06-04T15:58:36","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T20:58:36","slug":"rannoch-looper-a-new-moth-for-vc22-berkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/rannoch-looper-a-new-moth-for-vc22-berkshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Rannoch Looper &#8211; a new moth for VC22 Berkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rannochlooper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-108\" title=\"Rannoch Looper\" src=\"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rannochlooper-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Rannoch Looper\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>During the Society\u2019s visit to Dry Sandford Pit (a nature reserve near Abingdon belonging to the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust) on Sunday 31<sup>st<\/sup> May 2009, a small orange moth was found on a clump of Common Bird\u2019s-foot Trefoil. It has been identified by Martin Harvey, the County Moth Recorder, as Rannoch Looper <em>Itame brunneata. <\/em><span> <\/span>This is the first specimen of Rannoch Looper to be recorded in VC22 Berkshire. Britain has a small resident population of these moths in central Scotland, but the Dry Sandford individual is likely to be a migrant from mainland Europe, brought in by the recent north-easterly winds. Since the first Rannoch Looper was found on the Reading and District Natural History Society field trip, further specimens have been seen in Wokingham and Windsor Great  Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Society\u2019s visit to Dry Sandford Pit (a nature reserve near Abingdon belonging to the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust) on Sunday 31st&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_customify_content_layout":"","_customify_sidebar":"","_customify_page_header_display":"","_customify_disable_header":"","_customify_disable_header_top":"","_customify_disable_header_main":"","_customify_disable_header_bottom":"","_customify_disable_page_title":"","_customify_disable_content_vertical_padding":"","_customify_disable_footer_top":"","_customify_disable_footer_main":"","_customify_disable_footer_bottom":"","_customify_breadcrumb_display":"","_customify_header_transparent_display":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}