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
Thanks H, know how you love a challenge! Lol
Think I would go with the second unpronounceable one ... no easy common name!
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
Amazing, very interesting and pretty specimen- didn´t knew any before.
Here are a couple of micros from Friday night, both new for me, Tabenna micalis,
& Cosmopterix lienigiella
I had to pack up early due to lightening heading my way, so was well pleased with the newbies!! Got home just as the first raindrops fell.
P.S. As a guide 3 squares together are 5mm, so both the moths were about that size.
Wiki calls Tebenna micalis, the small thistle moth but don't know if others do, they seem to have common names for most moth types ... Norfolk moths have different name ... www.norfolkmoths.co.uk/micros.php
Not for the second one though ... UKmoths say it's in my area though ukmoths.org.uk/.../cosmopterix-lienigiella
You do find some interesting micros H!
I'm trapping in the reed beds a lot this year, an area I've not really touched & have found some beauties & quite rare too. There have to be some compensations for all the mozzies!
Another from the reed beds a couple of weeks ago, Archanara neurica,White-mantled Wainscot,
& just to prove it, photos of underwing showing absence of spots!
Big smile for that one. I saw it a few days previously & couldn't prove it, no photo of underside, so went back, saw it, captured it, brought it home for photos, got it authenticated so it wasn't needed for genital examination, & then took it back the next night. Phew!
Found this under the lid of our recycling bin, ID please from the thread experts.... you know who you are don't be shy
Tony
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wherryman/