Know your Moths ? Please help me identify this one

cool, i thought i was off

second one looks very much like a silver y-wing without the eponymous mark (perhaps folded away)

but yeah, cabbage moth probably closely related

What would make you think it *isn't* a cabbage moth? (Genuine, non-snarky question - not really sure what I'm looking for).

oh i'm willing to believe it is. moth taxonomy not my forte

Didn't get a photo but White Plumes are freaky/beautiful.

http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/t550/cochlear_nerve/746c1e1d-adc9-4f42-a2d2-db02aaf161a8_zps215f3cdf.jpg

Springwatch Guide to Butterflies and Moths tonight at 2100 on BBC2:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037k5vp

A Privet Hawkmoth prevails against tyranny:

http://i.imgur.com/jX3BmWu.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/SmJ0PIM.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/P2hD1aq.jpg

We also get Hummingbird Hawkmoths here - I'll try to upload one soon

Let it not be said that he does not deliver (and deliver, it transpires, himself):

http://i.imgur.com/jWEWhxo.jpg

is that the same type of moth in the first three photos? a couple that resemble that first photo but not the other two have been hanging around in my house for a few days now, weirdly lumpy looking when viewed side on. we're not too bothered about getting rid of them but i suppose if they breed things could get a bit horrifying.

the last is a hummingbird hawkmoth. the first 3 photos contain a privet hawkmoth, or Sphinx, which has a sepulchral aspect and a shrouded, hunched form at rest, although its hindwings are brightly striped orange-pink and black and will be visible in flight as such. the body is striped more finely in similar colours. you need not be alarmed, unless you fear portents

these moths are the simple pish of mothkind though - like identifying a flamingo or a kingfisher. not even sport - dilettantish indulgence perhaps

http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/t550/cochlear_nerve/CornwallampNorfolk2013699_zps7d7cf21a.jpg

http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/t550/cochlear_nerve/CornwallampNorfolk2013702_zps9f2d43f8.jpg

http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/t550/cochlear_nerve/CornwallampNorfolk2013709_zps54a0fbf0.jpg

Am not very skilled at identification ...

Mother of Pearl for the last of these, maybe?

The first of those three is a Silver Y, apparently.

http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/t550/cochlear_nerve/Northumberlandandbeyond332_zpsc527006a.jpg

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http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/t550/cochlear_nerve/Northumberlandandbeyond332_zpsc527006a.jpg

six spot burnet moth innit

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

I think so, NickB.

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

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http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/t550/cochlear_nerve/SomeswallowssomemothsDorset2014012_zps023442aa.jpg

http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/t550/cochlear_nerve/SomeswallowssomemothsDorset2014014_zpsbfc6b18e.jpg

http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/t550/cochlear_nerve/SomeswallowssomemothsDorset2014016_zps86f68ca5.jpg

http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/t550/cochlear_nerve/SomeswallowssomemothsDorset2014018_zpsb8f89cc2.jpg

http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/t550/cochlear_nerve/SomeswallowssomemothsDorset2014021_zps03ef1252.jpg

orange swift moth
dunno
old lady perhaps?
brimstone
dunno

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

^ emperor moth, still the greatest

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

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

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

The tatty moth was *massive*.