Know your Moths ? Please help me identify this one

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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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