Hi All, I took an executive decision & decided to amalgamate the Butterfly & Moth threads which may make it easier to find if it's used more!
These are the old threads from 2019 Beautiful butterflies https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/all-creatures/200195/beautiful-butterflies-2019#pifragment-4285=1
& Mostly Moths https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/all-creatures/198118/mostly-moths-2019/1273216#pifragment-4285=1
To start us off here are a few from the recent traps & wine rope,
this is a lovely Satelite from the 8th january
Best wishes
Hazel in Southwest France
Trying to get a picture of a butterfly is a lot harder than I thought. I must have just been lucky the other day to get both of them land on the dirt.
So I have been chasing them about all day and only managed to get a pic of this one when it stopped very briefly!
A male Orange Tip I think!!
(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
Cin J
Unknown said:Wow, that Peacock moth is fabulous. 150 mm across that's amazing. I feel I should get a moth trap as I'm confined to my house and can't get out and about.
You don't even need a trap to put a toe in the water. A UV bulb (screw fixing) mounted on a tripod with a white cotton sheet on the ground & you're away. If you want to leave it all night you can adapt things like a clothes drier with net curtain around the outside. Go for it TJ, you can spend hours trying to identify them ! LOL
Hazel C said:you can spend hours trying to identify them !
At least that monster moth would be easy to ID unlike many of the others! I like moths but there's no rhyme or reason to moth families so you never know where to even start … at least I never do anyway
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Nige Flickr
Stick with the ones with most numerous species first, familiarity & all that ... anything else ... ask H! Lol
Another good resource is to google 'what's flying tonight' for your area!