Can anyone identify this moth?

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• Avril.markham Posts: 3

  August 2020

  I’ve also had the beautiful elephant hawk moth in the garden. Nature is prolific this year. 

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• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  August 2020

  Red underwing moth - https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/red-underwing
  
  @madpenguin had one the other day.

  Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
  

  "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."

  Plato
  

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• madpenguin Posts: 2,543

  August 2020

  The Red underwing is quite a spectacular moth when flying,I had thought it was a butterfly at first,quite a flash of red!

  “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings

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• Avril.markham Posts: 3

  August 2020

  Thank you both.  The nearest I could find was an emperor. Glad to know the correct name. 

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