Anyone else like moths or shall I shut up now? - Page 21

Eichhörnchen · 08-12-23, 12:56 PM

^ 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

Aktungbby · 08-12-23, 03:46 PM

...at your house or your moth-in-law's?

Eichhörnchen · 08-12-23, 04:12 PM

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

Eichhörnchen · 09-04-23, 04:49 AM

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

Eichhörnchen · 02-26-24, 11:12 AM

"Giant sex-crazed moths are set to arrive in Kent this summer"

https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-...hs-set-1690956

Moonlight · 02-26-24, 11:23 AM

^Play your cards right Mister Squirrel and you could bag yourself one of those.

Eichhörnchen · 02-26-24, 11:30 AM

I think I'd need a gun

Eichhörnchen · 02-27-24, 05:43 AM

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

08-12-23, 12:56 PM	#301
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,745 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	^ 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 __________________

08-12-23, 03:46 PM	#302
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,853 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	...at your house or your moth-in-law's? __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

08-12-23, 04:12 PM	#303
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,745 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	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 __________________

09-04-23, 04:49 AM	#304
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,745 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	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 __________________

02-26-24, 11:12 AM	#305
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,745 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Keep your back to that garden wall when pruning "Giant sex-crazed moths are set to arrive in Kent this summer" https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-...hs-set-1690956 __________________

02-26-24, 11:23 AM	#306
Moonlight Admiral Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Fookhall Copse Posts: 2,133 Downloads: 184 Uploads: 0	^Play your cards right Mister Squirrel and you could bag yourself one of those. __________________

02-26-24, 11:30 AM	#307
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,745 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I think I'd need a gun __________________

02-27-24, 05:43 AM	#308
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,745 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	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 __________________