Starting off 2023 list already! 7 Winter moths - Operophtera brumata around the front door
Last years thread for newcomers can be found here https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/all-creatures/279008/butterflies-and-moths-2022
Not sure what I will find this year as I will be possibly be doing more travelling in the UK
Cin J
Peacock Butterfly
Germain said:
New game - instead of 'Spot the Ball ' I bring you 'Spot the Brimstone'
That's a teaser Caroline, seen a few spots that may be likely, are you going to put us out of our misery?
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
Here are the Brimstones I found on Tuesday when on a fruitless Brown Hairstreak mission -
Gatekeeper
Common Blue
and a first for me - I opened a cupboard in the place I was staying in Shropshire and found a 20 Plume moth
I managed to find the 'spot the Brimstone' just! I think I may have cheated a bit though. I worked on a principle that if I had taken it, it would be somewhere near the centre ... hopefully. Well spotted ...
Hoping this is a Small Heath
Germain said:a 20 Plume moth
How do people come up with names for these things??
Lovely find Cin, along with your other critters.... was the blue stalking the grasshopper? (and I may be naive.... buts what's going on with the grasshoppers back end? :o)
PimperneBloke said:
(and I may be naive.... buts what's going on with the grasshoppers back end? :o)
Ovipositor