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03-22-22, 10:30 AM | #271 |
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Harbinger of Spring
The first real Spring-like day brought this vivid yellow male Brimstone into the garden to drink from the Periwinkle, which seems to be in flower all the year round. These butterflies are more of a greenish colour underneath but you rarely get to photograph them with wings open. It will have been hibernating in the ivy
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03-22-22, 07:26 PM | #272 | |
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Don’t mean to derail or hijack a thread it’s just that it brings to mind a story how these beautiful creatures got their names as told by Mark Twain in his book The Diaries Of Adam & Eve
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03-23-22, 09:18 AM | #273 |
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^ Indeed
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04-14-22, 08:45 PM | #274 |
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Found this guy hanging out on my front porch:
I think he had just emerged from his cocoon, because a minute earlier, his wings were all folded up and he looked entirely different. EDIT: I think it might be an Eight-Spotted Forester Moth.
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04-18-22, 04:48 PM | #275 |
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^ Great photo
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05-20-22, 12:59 AM | #276 |
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05-20-22, 03:40 AM | #277 |
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^ I think this is a Wainscot Moth
The one above that we don't get in the UK, so I don't know it
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05-20-22, 07:16 AM | #278 |
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This thread taught me to look with other eyes at moths. I never paid attention to their diversity and beauty, took them for granted.
Like grass species. Most people do not look cloesley, take them for granted. But Im sometimes watch wild grass in the winds for long minutes, or individual grasses, the colours, forms. So beautiful.
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05-20-22, 12:02 PM | #279 |
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For the infantry, grass life was quite a show. Called it "Brehm's Tierleben live" and it was only over when i got away to the navy 03:
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05-20-22, 04:06 PM | #280 | |
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So many interesting families, from the hawk moths to the 'carpet' moths and hook tips. Fascinating stories behind their history, too... such as the white ermine moths who rapidly evolved a dark form in the industrial north of England in response to the sooty environment and consequent higher predation of the lighter coloured insects
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05-21-22, 04:50 PM | #281 |
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A few moths from my collection
Just a glimpse at some varieties in my collection. There are many far bigger and more beautiful which I never managed to collect before giving up the hobby on conscientious grounds
Copper Underwing and below it a Large Yellow Underwing. The pretty spotted one next to that is a Speckled Yellow - not a widespread species. The large Old Lady Moth is common everywhere. That's a Six Spot Burnet below it and beneath that what looks to be a Peppered Moth Left: Five Spot Burnet and Magpie moths; Right: Buff Tip and a male Drinker Moth. He's much smaller than the female and (unlike her) has broad feathered antennae
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06-20-22, 02:31 PM | #282 |
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Hummingbird Hawk Moth, England
I've been trying recently - without much success - to photograph moths in the garden
But a good friend of mine was playing with his old Canon camera the other day when this appeared. It was a case of right place right time. He makes me sick (Photo used with permission)
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06-20-22, 09:45 PM | #283 |
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Wow, that's an incredible shot! I'm guessing your friend is no stranger to cameras.
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07-17-22, 02:06 PM | #284 |
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Speckled Wood
On this, the first day of the record-breaking heatwave, all I found to photograph was this speckled wood butterfly in the garden. The insects I've always been so interested in seem to be fast disappearing
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08-06-22, 10:25 AM | #285 |
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Not much action over behind the church... spotted this Brown Argus though
About 4 out of every six butterflies I've seen so far this summer have been Gatekeepers, this one also seen today. These normally not so very numerous butterflies seem almost to have the place to themselves this year
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