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
Tuesday nights trap yielded some absolute beauties, including 18 Vestals in and around the trap - yes I did sing 'Whiter Shade of Pale' to them and an absolutely stunning (rare migrant )in super condition a Spanish Carpet Edit:- After an email chat with our recorder - the Spanish Carpet is a resident on Island and has been recorded since early last century and was once identified as the Jersey Carpet in an early Moth book
An interestingly marked Vestal
More normal markings
Spanish Carpet
Spotted this on the shed door the other day, an ID would be great thanks.
Oh dear. Not what I wanted to find in my trap this morning . So pretty and so destructive
For those that don't know this is a Box Tree moth
A large and quite dishevelled moth found grounded this morning. It did fly off after resting on a Dahlia for a short time. ID please