Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Wednesday's moths

Team Hawkmoth
Meet the hawkmoths! Left to right: Pine, Elephant, Eyed and Poplar
True Lover's Knot
True Lover's Knot
Green Silver-lines
Green Silver-lines
Green Silver-lines
Nice to catch a green moth
Peppered Moth
Peppered Moth
The Shears
Shears

Full moth list follows, if you enjoy that kind of thing...



  • Cinnabar, 19
  • Setaceous Hebrew Character, 16
  • Marbled Minor agg., 10
  • Treble Lines, 9
  • Heart and Dart, 7
  • Brown Rustic, 6
  • Large Nutmeg, 5
  • Buff-tip, 4
  • Burnished Brass, 4
  • Large Yellow Underwing, 4
  • Scorched Wing, 4
  • Clouded Border, 3
  • Flame, 3
  • Clouded Silver, 2
  • Eyed Hawkmoth, 2
  • Flame Shoulder, 2
  • Light Emerald, 2
  • Small Clouded Brindle, 2
  • Swallow Prominent, 2
  • Tawny-barred Angle, 2
  • Angle Shades, 1
  • Beautiful Hook-tip, 1
  • Bright-line Brown-eye, 1
  • Buff Ermine, 1
  • Common Swift, 1
  • Dark Arches, 1
  • Double Square-spot, 1
  • Elephant Hawkmoth, 1
  • Green Silver-lines, 1
  • Orange Footman, 1
  • Pale Oak Beauty, 1
  • Peppered Moth, 1
  • Pine Hawkmoth, 1
  • Poplar Hawkmoth, 1
  • Riband Wave, 1
  • Shears, 1
  • Spectacle, 1
  • True Lover's Knot, 1

2 comments:

  1. Splendid photos. And the video clip shows off the eye-markings to perfection - would certainly scare me off if I was a predator!

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  2. I had a moth in my house one time and my mom starts freaking out saying that it's going to eat our cloths. Do they eat fabric?

    -Zane of ontario honey



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