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Old 08-12-23, 12:56 PM   #301
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^ My little sister once clouted one of those with a baseball bat whilst on holiday in the US - killed outright of course




I was just out in the garden doing some pruning and this little fella fluttered across the lawn and hid in the bushes. He's the aptly named Brimstone Moth, a day flying moth often mistaken for a butterfly
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Old 08-12-23, 04:12 PM   #302
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Ours - their favoured food plants are blackthorn (sloe) and hawthorn, both here in abundance but scarcely seen in built-up areas; they wouldn't dare grow in my mother-in-law's garden
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Old 09-04-23, 04:49 AM   #303
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It's been another very bad year for butterfly watchers - even if we do start to see more continental types establishing themselves in England, one would expect that the same factors causing such a decline here will affect them also



Here's a Speckled Wood photographed just now - a country butterfly (ours is a rural spot) by no means scarce as a rule. These are probably the easiest of all to photograph: they show no fear of man, returning to the same favourite spot no matter how often disturbed. This they fiercely defend against all others of their species who wander into their territory - normally a woodland glade - and the two will spiral upwards in a dance-like combat, a common sight in the forests
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Old 02-26-24, 11:12 AM   #304
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"Giant sex-crazed moths are set to arrive in Kent this summer"

https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-...hs-set-1690956
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^Play your cards right Mister Squirrel and you could bag yourself one of those.
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Old 02-26-24, 11:30 AM   #306
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I think I'd need a gun
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Old 02-27-24, 05:43 AM   #307
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Default Moth found in West London is a new species from Western Australia

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/...local%20expert.

As I expected, it's a pretty boring looking thing even to a moth enthusiast. Reece probably has these in his wallet
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Default Orange Tip



No there are no orange tips - this is the female, photographed today on the wild garlic in the garden. Very warm now and after having millions of bees visit our crab-apple tree (there were pathetically few last Spring) I'm more hopeful of seeing butterflies in 2024; 2023 was a total washout

Wed 8th and a male came along
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Found this guy on my porch screen the other day:


https://imgur.com/a/wR0Ic20




Looks like a Tulip Tree Beauty Moth to me.
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Old 05-20-24, 02:40 AM   #310
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^

Thanks, Sean - you surely identified that correctly and it seems to be another one not listed here in the UK
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I just dont like kitchen moths, because they destroy my food.
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Old 05-20-24, 09:45 AM   #312
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I just dont like kitchen moths, because they destroy my food.
...from which the English laguage derived the hyphenated expression: 'moth-eaten'.
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I wonder how STEED is getting on theses days
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...from which the English laguage derived the hyphenated expression: 'moth-eaten'.

it is more like moth-infested than moth-eaten - food is still there but it is full of webs and worms.

Plus English is not my native language, more like primary gaming language
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...you could change your sig's name to: Kaleun Vlad von Motten Zerfressen!
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