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A new season and fresh hopes of finding something special at my butterfly 'hotspot'...
Today is a very hot day indeed, so I visited my secret rough meadow-corner, near to the village church, and found some fast-flying and restless Large Skipper butterflies. Hard to get a shot, but I eventually managed these... I'm going to have to get Moira along here with her super new camera. Skipper butterflies are often mistaken for moths because of the peculiar way they hold their wings at rest... rather like jet aircraft.  
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06-17-17, 11:22 AM
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06-17-17, 12:14 PM
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Moira liked that... don't give her ideas
 
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06-17-17, 01:11 PM
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Saw one of these in our garden the other day
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That's a bee hawk-moth. I only ever saw one of those... in the garden here in Lincolnshire.
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06-17-17, 04:20 PM
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06-17-17, 06:33 PM
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What can I tell you, August, except that your link is either ignorant or that in the USA these day-flying moths are all known (carelessly, I'd suggest) as Humming-bird Hawk-moths. But as far as I am aware, animal taxonomy is international, which would make your link plain wrong! Anyway, in Britain the Humming-bird Hawk-moth does not have clear wings... these belong to the Narrow-bordered and Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-moths... please look at these reliable links:
http://butterfly-conservation.org/51...hawk-moth.html and http://butterfly-conservation.org/51...hawk-moth.html and http://butterfly-conservation.org/51...hawk-moth.html Maybe you got hold of some fake news, mate.
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