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Brian Dixon
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19 July 2013 13:57237969
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oooo errrrrr ,is that howard hiding in your flower beds kath.
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19 July 2013 19:55238012
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I did wonder, Brian ! Fallen asleep with the heat !
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24 July 2013 14:06238525
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Despite the awful storm, the lavender is looking good today, and full of bees and butterflies ! Can anyone identify the small brown moth (I think its a moth?) - sorry its out of focus. About the size of a small blue. Its wings overlap.

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24 July 2013 17:02238530
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Small Tortoiseshell?

http://butterfly-conservation.org/50/2/identify-a-butterfly.html
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24 July 2013 18:35238543
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yes, Tom. The one I don't know is the second picture, a smaller (moth?), brown.
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24 July 2013 19:02238549
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There is a daylight-flying moth identifier and four pages of pictures on that same site, after all you are the only one that saw it on the move Kath.
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24 July 2013 19:59238558
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My money is on a Belted Beauty...

http://butterfly-conservation.org/51/1/identify-a-day-flying-moth.html
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25 July 2013 17:58238676
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Have had a look and not sure. If I see it again will take a better photo, the shape of the wings is like that of a hawk moth but body not big enough to be a humming bird hawk moth. Have never seen one before.
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26 July 2013 21:52238756
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This is the moth which was on my lavender. Any ideas what it is?

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Keith Sansum1
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26 July 2013 23:36238759
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the flowers do brighten a place up
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Jan Higgins
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27 July 2013 09:16238782
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Kath, could it be this one which is a Essex Skipper Butterfly, I could not find anything like it among the moths.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=essex+skipper+butterfly&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=uIDzUaf5H-ip0QWMw4Fg&ved=0CC8QsAQ&biw=1680&bih=917
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Keith Sansum1
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27 July 2013 09:21238783
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love the close ups
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27 July 2013 09:21238784
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We're getting closer...an Essex Skipper...

http://butterfly-conservation.org/679-1039/essex-skipper.html
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Keith Sansum1
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27 July 2013 09:23238785
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all great close up pics though
whatever they are
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27 July 2013 13:36238821
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That's it, thanks everyone, I wondered if it was a butterfly, not a moth. Bob says there used to be a lot of them on Plum Pudding Hill, don't know if there is now.

BINGO !!!
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Keith Sansum1
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27 July 2013 23:16238854
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fantastic pics
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Guest 656
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29 July 2013 16:45238990
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Beautiful photos Kath, loving the sea of lavender

Plum Pudding Hill, sounds rather tasty! where is this Kath?

My lilac tree is in bloom in my back garden at the moment, my lilac tree in the front garden was in bloom about a month ago, I'm guessing they must be different varieties.
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29 July 2013 18:03238997
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Colette,I think your picture shows a Buddlia commonly called a Butterfly Bush.
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29 July 2013 18:11238999
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What a lovely Buddleia too.
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howard mcsweeney1
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29 July 2013 18:29239001
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colette

i believe plum pudding hill is the colloquial term for whinless down - if you stand at the bottom of my road and look towards the vandalised tram shelter, rising above is plum pudding hill.

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