Living room moths
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enismirdalAs previously mentioned, a lot of moths wander into my living room in the evenings when I am sitting with the light on and the window open. I thought that rather than plundering the interwebs for similar pictures, I should do the obvious thing and photograph them when they settle - also means I can ID the tricky ones later!
This little chap is a Least Carpet moth.
Here, we have a Lime-Speck Pug. There are lots of pug moths, most of them similar in shape to this.
A Swallowtailed Moth. This one does have two antennae but the one you can't see is tucked beneath the wing! I hadtwoabout six of these at one point. They're a gorgeous pale creamy colour!
Cute little Riband Wave.
This one is an L-album Wainscot. Silly name! It's because it has a white L-shape on each wing.
A small magpie. My Chinery lists this with the micromoths, for some reason, despite that it's a similar size to the Riband Wave and certainly bigger than the pug. I assume it's a taxonomy thing. In any case, I love these - they're so striking!
I'm honestly not sure what this one is! It's huuuge, though - the second photo is meant to give some idea of scale but doesn't really do it justice - and it does tend to fly at one's face when panicked! I was wondering if it was some species of carpet moth, but the wing-edges seem wrong, and it doesn't have the "W" shape of the brocades...so I'm stumped. Anyone with ideas, please let me know. Is anyone able to hold a seance and ask Mike Majerus...?
Just identified this! It's an Old Lady. Missed it in Chinery cos the photo makes it look much smaller than it is. Just got another one in here, very tatty-looking now unfortunately.
This is a Dwarf Cream Wave.
Again, I don't really know what this one is!
This is a Mother of Pearl. I've been getting LOADS of these recently. They're often quite jumpy so a little hard to photograph, but they are absolutely beautiful when you can catch them sitting still - they're kind of translucent and so delicate-looking.
So that's it for now. I'll try and catch an Autographa gamma for a photo at some point - someone I know works on them and so I've become quite enthused about them (also, very very abundant last week, though less so this week.)
Insect posts I still need to do:
- intro to the beetles Eni works with these days
- my current pet hoverfly, a female Volucella inanis
- pics from field course aaaages ago
This little chap is a Least Carpet moth.
Here, we have a Lime-Speck Pug. There are lots of pug moths, most of them similar in shape to this.
A Swallowtailed Moth. This one does have two antennae but the one you can't see is tucked beneath the wing! I had
Cute little Riband Wave.
This one is an L-album Wainscot. Silly name! It's because it has a white L-shape on each wing.
A small magpie. My Chinery lists this with the micromoths, for some reason, despite that it's a similar size to the Riband Wave and certainly bigger than the pug. I assume it's a taxonomy thing. In any case, I love these - they're so striking!
Just identified this! It's an Old Lady. Missed it in Chinery cos the photo makes it look much smaller than it is. Just got another one in here, very tatty-looking now unfortunately.
This is a Dwarf Cream Wave.
Again, I don't really know what this one is!
This is a Mother of Pearl. I've been getting LOADS of these recently. They're often quite jumpy so a little hard to photograph, but they are absolutely beautiful when you can catch them sitting still - they're kind of translucent and so delicate-looking.
So that's it for now. I'll try and catch an Autographa gamma for a photo at some point - someone I know works on them and so I've become quite enthused about them (also, very very abundant last week, though less so this week.)
Insect posts I still need to do:
- intro to the beetles Eni works with these days
- my current pet hoverfly, a female Volucella inanis
- pics from field course aaaages ago
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Date: 5 Aug 2010 23:07 (UTC)And I think I might have identified your other small one: http://www.ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=4148
Edit: Also meant to squee about the Silver Y, sorry! *squee*
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Date: 5 Aug 2010 23:14 (UTC)Oooooh, well spotted with the Phlyctaenia stachydalis - cool that it's a not terribly common moth, but this is southern England, so it's quite possible! Woundword-eating...that's interesting. I wonder where it found that!
Yeah...I've gone from never having heard of Silver Ys a few weeks back to being rather fond of them now. They're pretty, and large, and fun. I get about 3-6 most evenings at the moment and they flutter around the room for the evening, and then I go to bed and the next morning they're all clamouring at the window to be let out! Silly creatures.
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Date: 6 Aug 2010 00:42 (UTC)I saw a black moth the other night and I can figure out what it was...
Beautiful piccies! <3
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Date: 6 Aug 2010 18:50 (UTC)Luna moths look stunning! I wish we had them here! Black moths sound cool as well...I think we have a very small all-black moth species here called "The Chimney Sweep" but I may be imagining that! :D
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Date: 6 Aug 2010 18:18 (UTC)no subject
Date: 6 Aug 2010 18:49 (UTC)Edith's Aunt here.
Date: 7 Aug 2010 18:26 (UTC)The moth between the dwarf cream wave and the mother of pearl is another micro - I think Phylctaenia coronata but may be P. stachydalis.
Hope this helps
Jill