I wonder if any of you insect experts can identify this moth, which landed on the outside of a window, while I was inside. There was no way that I could open the door and creep out, in order to get a shot of his other side. Basically, he scarpered. Thank you.
We were cutting some long branches off a tree today and when I was chopping up the pieces I saw this, my Seek app told me it was a Sphinx moth but the app couldn’t get down to species level. Does anyone know what it is? I put it back on the tree to carry on doing what it was doing!
@wild edges Wow! I've just looked up information on this, and it must be off-track. I'm in north Kent!!
Going by the iNaturalist maps they haven't quite made it as far north as me yet but I'm still hopeful of seeing one around here in the next couple of years. Sightings seem down on last year but it's probably just that the weather has been bad.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Thanks @Dovefromabove yes I just checked your link and it was on our willow tree which it mentions as a tree it feeds on. Amazing creatures, I love it’s blue horn 😁
Another creature, that came to rest on a windowsill. Okay, not the cleanest windowsill. Any identification would be useful please. Thank you. Oh, and I think it does have four wings. Two, it seems, are closed up together.
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Thank you.
It seemed larger than the average moth we get around here!!
not a great pic … just grabbed my phone and snapped while it was stationary for a moment …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We were cutting some long branches off a tree today and when I was chopping up the pieces I saw this, my Seek app told me it was a Sphinx moth but the app couldn’t get down to species level. Does anyone know what it is? I put it back on the tree to carry on doing what it was doing!
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2021/07/hawk-moth-caterpillar-identification/#:~:text=Eyed%20hawk-moth%20caterpillar%20%28Smerinthus%20ocellata%29%20Eyed%20hawk-moth%20caterpillar.,by%20its%20white%20diagonal%20stripes%20along%20the%20body.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Any identification would be useful please.
Thank you.
Oh, and I think it does have four wings. Two, it seems, are closed up together.