Ooh that’s a great haul, all the showy ones! Ours is packed this morning but we have open gardens, so I’m leaving them in there to try and wow the visitors and turn them into moth lovers!
Ooh that’s a great haul, all the showy ones! Ours is packed this morning but we have open gardens, so I’m leaving them in there to try and wow the visitors and turn them into moth lovers!
We did that before an evening opening years ago, view and release. It was a popular event
They were desperately trying to escape at 5.30 this morning, aided and abetted by the cat. I had to move them, jar what we could, and cover the rest over. I took one of the elephant hawkmoths down the road to a little boy who is keen on the wildlife. We only had the photo of the privet hawkmoth, it flew off early, but he was happy, and the men fitting their new windows were amazed that they came out of my garden.
At least this one got the carpet to match the drapes. This is a very common clothes moth apparently but doesn't seem to have many records. I guess micromoths get ignored when there are big showy ones in the trap. This is the first record for Wales on iNaturalist, and the first record for my area on NBN Atlas, despite how common they are. They live in bird boxes where wool is used so my putting scrap wool out for the birds might have boosted the population locally.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
That's the real bonus of the macro lens on this camera. I can use it as a magnifying glass to see what things are. Annoyingly you get ones like these which are both different colour forms of the same species as far as I can tell. No extra species points for special forms sadly.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
A stroke of luck here. I saw this moth on the wall by the trap but it flew away before I could get a photo. Somehow though it managed to end up in the house and I got a quick photo before setting it free. Moth species number 200 for the garden: The Mottled Beauty
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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