It's not cricket

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  12 August 2011     11:58120126
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  actually it is, but what is it doing stuck to the curtain looking out on the street?
  
  

  
• Guest 640

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  12 August 2011     16:00120190
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  lol! the oddest things turn up indoors
  
  Somebody got a black widow spider with their cellophane packed bananas one time...ugh! Talk about see the bananas and split!!
  
  
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Brian Dixon

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  12 August 2011     16:02120193
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  howard,its the neiborhood watch cricket person.
• Guest 698

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  12 August 2011     17:44120244
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  Good question Howard, I must say I'm stumped.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• Guest 644

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  12 August 2011     18:28120262
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  I reckon it's a male Orange Swift moth:
  
  Flies at dusk late June-early September and loves dandelion whilst a larva. The adults have no mouthparts at all and are incapable of feeding. Common in southern England.
  
  http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?bf=15
  
  Lovely photos:
  
  http://www.animalphotos.me/moth-swif.htm
  
  Reminds me, must get the moth trap out this week and report back.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  12 August 2011     18:35120267
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  looks like you are right phil, sadly it may be a late moth.
  
  tapped it on the head half an hour ago, no response at all.
  
  seems like its feet are stuck in the net curtain.