Know your Moths ? Please help me identify this one

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Got there eventually. Is there any way of deleting posts?

djh, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link

I think so, NickB.

djh, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link

you could ask a mod but srsly its not worth the bother, yours or theirs

have got loads of six spot burnets at my allotment at the moment, they have this beautiful crimson underwing when they fly off

john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link

two months pass...

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djh, Monday, 15 September 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link

orange swift moth
dunno
old lady perhaps?
brimstone
dunno

john wahey (NickB), Monday, 15 September 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link

http://tpittaway.tripod.com/silk/s_pav_a3.jpg

^ emperor moth, still the greatest

john wahey (NickB), Monday, 15 September 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link

Nice one, Nick B. Good call on the Old Lady.

djh, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 06:28 (nine years ago) link

always assume that large brown patterned ones are silver y-wings even when they're not haha

imago, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 08:46 (nine years ago) link

whatever it is, it's a really tatty specimen. looks likes it's been pecked by a bird or something

john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 08:57 (nine years ago) link

The tatty moth was *massive*.

djh, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link


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