I wish photos could do this more justice as this has to be one of the most amazing moths I've ever found but it has reflective bronze and gold patches that the camera just couldn't pick up. As if the purple colour and punk hairdo weren't enough though. It's not called the Beautiful Golden-Y moth for nothing. The 45th moth species I've identified from the garden now (plus 14 still to be identified).
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
This isn't exactly an insect, but it will be. I thought it was a mullein caterpillar, but that's similar but not this, I think... This has a very thick yellow line down the back. I watered the garden and it got a bit sploshed.
Right next to it - though I found it on willow herb that had somehow snuck in amongst the linaria that I grow for the bees. Thanks, WE. I should have checked for the linaria lovers. x
I wish photos could do this more justice as this has to be one of the most amazing moths I've ever found but it has reflective bronze and gold patches that the camera just couldn't pick up. As if the purple colour and punk hairdo weren't enough though. It's not called the Beautiful Golden-Y moth for nothing. The 45th moth species I've identified from the garden now (plus 14 still to be identified).
He's a beauty @wild edges Lovely pic too @Fire Keep meaning to post this pic in the hope that you might be able to ID it @wild edges. I was moving the hoghouse now that the squatting bees have moved out, and when I lifted the lid off, these were along the two inner edges. You can see the webbing/cocoons they were emerging from I wondered if it was a sawfly of some kind, and had a look online, but couldn't get anything definitive. There are pine sawflies, which would make sense, as the box is under a conifer and a pine, but they were light green and had little black markings which these didn't have. These were quite creamy coloured, but I don't know whether it's because they're immature?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Right next to it - though I found it on willow herb that had somehow snuck in amongst the linaria that I grow for the bees. Thanks, WE. I should have checked for the linaria lovers. x
Amazing! (Running out of superlatives).
Lovely pic too @Fire
Keep meaning to post this pic in the hope that you might be able to ID it @wild edges.
I was moving the hoghouse now that the squatting bees have moved out, and when I lifted the lid off, these were along the two inner edges. You can see the webbing/cocoons they were emerging from
I wondered if it was a sawfly of some kind, and had a look online, but couldn't get anything definitive. There are pine sawflies, which would make sense, as the box is under a conifer and a pine, but they were light green and had little black markings which these didn't have. These were quite creamy coloured, but I don't know whether it's because they're immature?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...