Butterflies and moths

[chainsawjob]

Comma a couple of weeks ago

 

[Steel Icarus]

 

[Callie]

I found a red belted clearwing in my garden the other day

You can just see him in the rubbish pic

 

[campanula]

I recently found out about a creature called a hornet moth, Sesia apiformis

In our wood.

 

[Callie]

Yeah! That's awesome. I'm really tempted to try a moth trap (light source plus white sheet version ) but I can't stay up late these days. Maybe if I get some time off soon.

I also love some of the names of moths: burnished brass, the herald, magpie, mottled umber

 

[heinous seamus]

I saw a small copper today. First one I've seen this year.


Also spotted the below if anyone knows what it is?

 

[iona]

ID please?

 

[Calamity1971]

ID please?

Oak Eggar / Northern Eggar
?

 

[Sprocket.]

Can anyone identify this incredibly tiny moth? It is only 12mm wingtip to wingtip.

 

[Calamity1971]

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Can anyone identify this incredibly tiny moth? It is only 12mm wingtip to wingtip.

Have you tried this sprocket ?
Moths

 

[Sprocket.]

Have you tried this sprocket ?
Moths

I haven’t checked anywhere yet. I posted the pic as soon as I’d taken it. Just in case one of Urbans amateur lepidopterists was available.
I will look now thanks.

 

[Sprocket.]

Plenty of lookalikes, but all are three or four times bigger.

 

[campanula]

I wouldn't have a hope of identifying a micromoth - there are 1000s of them - without a field-guide and key (still up in Norfolk). Quite a lot don't have a common name...but of those that do, there are some quite evocative titles. The Drinker, The Conformist, Rusty Dot Pearl, Plumed Prominent, and my current favourite, Clifden Nonpareil or Blue Underwing.

 

[Callie]

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Can anyone identify this incredibly tiny moth? It is only 12mm wingtip to wingtip.

Alucita hexadactyla, or 20 plumed moth! I knew that Facebook moth group would be good for something!!

 

[campanula]

Yeah! That's awesome. I'm really tempted to try a moth trap (light source plus white sheet version ) but I can't stay up late these days. Maybe if I get some time off soon.

It will be my first attempt at 'mothing' with a light trap so I am quite excited and will be doing a few nights to practice. You put empty egg boxes in the bottom of the trap (all the books are quite insistent there are no substitutes for eggboxes), where the moths will rest in comfort, waiting out the night till we can all do our ooohing, fussing and (inevitably) disagreeing. We might increase the likelihood of catching them by bribing them with liquor (step this way, little moth, the first sip is free...) Boiled molasses, red wine. honey, spread on a tree trunk, fencepost or bit of rope and they are helpless to resist.And will obligingly idle all night and pose for a bit in the morning

 

[D'wards]

Stayed at a pals last weekend and in their front garden we discovered these fellows


Which turn into these fellows


My pals daughter put one in a jar with holes in the lid and some ragwort. I used to do that as a kid

 

[D'wards]

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Can anyone identify this incredibly tiny moth? It is only 12mm wingtip to wingtip.

My app say...

 

[chainsawjob]

A couple of blurry ones from my holidays in Norfolk.

Gatekeeper I think, on sea Holly in the sand dunes.

 

[chainsawjob]

Another in the sand dunes, this one was big, and very furry. Maybe an Oak Eggar again as upthread?

 

[Sprocket.]

I have retrieved the tiny 20 plume moth and released her outside. Sadly we have no honeysuckle in our garden. But I am sure she will thrive more outside.

 

[chainsawjob]

Today, trying to find a peaceful spot in the pocket of a bag, until I needed something out of there!

ID anyone? Thanks.

 

[chainsawjob]

Brimstone, today

 

[moose]

The moths round here seem to have a death wish. I'll be relaxing in the bath with my Kindle and a glass of wine, when one flies in and goes 'SPLOT!' onto my naked bod, leaving dusty black marks on me, and then flaps into the bath. After a bit of ineffectual fishing, I manage to dump them onto a towel to dry out, and chuck them out through the window. Next night, same again.

 

[sunnysidedown]

this fella landed on my window the other day. I went out to get a shot from the other side but they had buggered off.

 

[prunus]

If we’re allowed pics from last year here‘s a lovely elephant hawk moth sitting on my finger (early July, western Peak District):

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And as a follow-up, this year I found one of its caterpillars, a few hundred yards away; from this it apparently it gets its name, as it looks (so it’s claimed) like an elephant’s trunk:

 

[Maggot]

Found this on a window. I think its a Jersey Tiger Moth

 

[chainsawjob]

Saw this about a month ago



Spotted by my eagle-eyed daughter very well camouflaged against a shop window of origami birds.



Just looked it up, looks like it's a Brimstone Moth Brimstone moth | The Wildlife Trusts.

 

[chainsawjob]

Today, trying to find a peaceful spot in the pocket of a bag, until I needed something out of there!

ID anyone? Thanks.

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Reckon this could be a Square-spot Rustic, quite common apparently Square-spot Rustic Xestia xanthographa - UKMoths

 

[BillRiver]

What might this be, in my bathroom this morning, please?

 

[StoneRoad]

My guess-id "Angel Shades".


oaw - angel shades par StoneRoad2013, on ipernity

by the way, I was told a year or two ago that there were somewhere between 2,500 and 3,000 moth species to be found in the UK !