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06-18-21, 07:06 AM | #256 |
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06-19-21, 03:17 AM | #257 | |
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Here's a "Silver-ground Carpet" moth on our drive a couple of days ago... very common at this time of year. The larvae feed at night on plants like bedstraw and grasses
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07-16-21, 12:34 PM | #258 |
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First visit to the 'hot spot' this summer but it was an absolute waste of time. All I saw was this little Shaded Broad-bar moth... a very common thing
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08-02-21, 01:47 PM | #259 |
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Hedge Brown or Gatekeeper
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Female Still a lousy year for butterflies. I went over to my favourite spot a couple of days ago and the only things I saw were 2 or 3 Meadow Browns and these two Hedge Browns (aka the Gatekeeper). The male is smaller and has the large patches of brown scent scales in the middle of the forewings, absent from the much larger female I did learn something when reading up on these, however, and that is that they are entirely absent from Scotland. Maybe it's the bagpipes
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08-03-21, 12:33 PM | #260 |
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Moira found some Cinnabar Moth larvae on Ragwort today and brought back this photo for me. She said they prefer Oxford Ragwort, which she says this is. She knows more than I do about plants then... as well as Cinnabar larvae
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08-06-21, 02:54 AM | #261 |
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My first ex is also a a bit of an expert on flora and fauna and I, as you, am not; many of our conversations while walking in nature or through gardens would be as follows:
Her: Oh look! Do you know what kind of flower that is?... Me: Um... er... ...red...?... Her: (exasperated): Its a red peony! How could you not know that?... Me: It wasn't covered in our "Guy's Handbook"... ...later, I would get her with "What?! You don't know the intonation srews on a standard Stratocaster is 4-40 x 5/8"...?..."... <O>
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08-06-21, 03:12 AM | #262 | |
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re Vienna A girl friend of mine who had studied biology had a date with a lawyer in Konstanz. Seeing a gull lift off he said "oh look a duck"; the arising relationship stopped right there.
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08-06-21, 05:44 AM | #263 |
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My second ex is a lawyer; she was also a photography buff and was always fiddling with her lens settings, etc.; once, in San Francisco, we were walking along the wharves, and she saw a very beautiful seagull standing on a pier piling, soaking up the sun; she wanted to take a picture of the bird and set about fiddling with the settings on her very expensive camera; I, with my lowly Kodak Instamatic, got off a quick snap of the bird; meanwhile, the gull started to look at her with seeming impatience, fluttered its feathers and, with an attitude of "Later, girl", took off before she had finished her set up; I had to keep my photo in hiding since it became a sore point with her...
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08-07-21, 09:43 AM | #264 |
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^I remember when cameras were like that. Fortunately these digital ones do it all for you, just like the Instamatic only much sharper
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08-26-21, 08:33 AM | #265 |
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Been a lousy year for butterflies again. This is the normally very common Small Tortoiseshell, which was rarely spotted last summer yet has been frequently seen around here this year
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09-06-21, 01:26 PM | #266 |
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Moira wanted to pick blackberries today along the wooded bank at the end of our road, now that we finally have some decent weather. I took the camera along and found the place alive with Speckled Wood butterflies... just like it should be. So these creatures don't seem to have suffered the huge losses that most of the other local species have; they've even been visiting our garden
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09-06-21, 02:34 PM | #267 |
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Must be nice to be a caterpillar ..
Eat and sleep. Eat and sleep. Eat and sleep. ZAP. Beautiful..
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09-06-21, 04:44 PM | #268 |
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If only our lives were that simple; I want to come back as a caterpillar
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09-06-21, 06:01 PM | #269 |
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Maybe not this one!
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09-19-21, 12:33 PM | #270 |
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This one's got me completely foxed. It's sitting on our front room window right now (been there all day) and I just can't identify it. It's only a little over 2cm from wingtip to wingtip. I've asked Moonlight to look through his Aunt Priscilla's moth books when he goes down there to look after her farm animals, but I think he's going to be too busy trying to keep away from her geese Edit: just been told by a Facebook friend that it's a Common Marbled Carpet
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