Butterflies & Moths 2020

• WendyBartter

  

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  • 30 Jun 2020 7:45 PM

  Always a treat to see the bright little Brimstone moth Linda, likewise Small Tortoiseshell!

   

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• Linda257

  

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  • 30 Jun 2020 7:48 PM

  In reply to WendyBartter:

  First time for both for me Wendy!

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• WendyBartter

  

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  • 30 Jun 2020 7:52 PM

  Have been lucky enough to have several Brimstones to moth traps over a few years but not set up yet this year regularly due to lack of space ... onky seen two ST's so far but weather not good either heatwave or gales & rain!

   

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• Linda257

  

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  • 30 Jun 2020 7:58 PM

  In reply to WendyBartter:

  I thought moths only came out at night Wendy and spent about 20 mins looking at butterflies trying to identify it...stupid me!

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• WendyBartter

  

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  • 30 Jun 2020 8:08 PM

  Not all moths are night fliers Linda, we have some day ones too! I caught a Silver Y moth which was in my lounge yesterday evening, mid-air catch in a plastic pot with cardboard ready to cover! Other half was quite impressed! Lol Took it outside & parked it on Red Valerian, never even got a pic!

   

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• Linda257

  

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  • 30 Jun 2020 8:16 PM

  In reply to WendyBartter:

  Oh I have much to learn still Wendy! Oh no not even a pic!! Disaster lol

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• Russell T

  

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  • 2 Jul 2020 7:47 PM

  Hi all,

  Some photos to show:-

  some kind of bee on field scabious

  

  Small Magpie moth

  

  garden tiger moth

  

  centipede?

  

  & comma

  

  hope your loving the summer as much as I am

  bw

  Russ

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• WendyBartter

  

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  • 2 Jul 2020 8:58 PM

  Was lovely til it poured with rain & drove all the butterflies away! Lovely captures Russ!

   

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• Noisette

  

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  • 3 Jul 2020 12:46 PM

  Hi Russ, great photos & your garden Tiger looks like a Scarlet Tiger to me, a lot more unusual I'd say (they are like hens teeth here).

  Best wishes

  Hazel in the Gironde estuary, France

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• WendyBartter

  

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  • 3 Jul 2020 6:59 PM

  My latest incumbent courtesy of my Niece who found it near her Pellitory-of-the-wall ... not the famous Bloxworth Snout larva though ... think it's a Red Admiral one, they also inhabit the aforementioned herb plus common Nettle

  

   

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