Moths
- 29 July 2010 19:4262960Just checking my ears ...................... NOPE defo not royalty.
- 29 July 2010 20:5962971Had the Hummingbird Hawk Moth in the garden this evening - camera was indoors :(Been nice knowing you :)
- 29 July 2010 21:5763002Missed the hawk moth but got these still :)
Been nice knowing you :) - 29 July 2010 22:0063005What amazing colours.
- 29 July 2010 22:1163010top quality pics paul.
amazing to think we are surrounded by all this beauty but in the modern world we tend to rush past. - 29 July 2010 22:4163014These were just in the back garden in a few minutes - there were cabbage white, gatekeeper, the illusive hawk moth, dragonflies and a sea of grasshoppers !!Been nice knowing you :)
- 29 July 2010 22:4763015Hummingbird Hawkmoth? Jammy thing...same thing happened to me two days ago. Saw my first for four years up at High Meadow but didn't have my camera on me either! Apparantly I missed a Death Head's Hawkmoth by ten minutes too - never seen one.
Got the moth trap running as I type this for the second time and keep popping out just to get a face-full of midges. Identifying these things really is a bugger isn't it? - 29 July 2010 22:5363018Yes a Hummingbird Hawkmoth - he keeps terrorising me by only turning up when Jo is around, but today I am stood there chatting and he was next to me !!!Been nice knowing you :)
- 3 August 2010 09:5463782A couple more from last night. They are quite endearing little things really - but then I have no friends.
Don't know what this one is:
Small Purple and Gold:
Ruby Tiger:
40W Ranger Moth trap:
- 3 August 2010 10:0063784Small Emerald:
Silver Y:
Not just moths, ended up with a very small Water Boatman in there! Not expecting that.
- 3 August 2010 10:1263787Lovely photos Phil I find the Emeralds a little scary but I like the Silver Y.
- 4 August 2010 18:5364000
Look what I found this morning Phil!! YAY!!!
Dont want to bore you with a mega zoomed in image on here!! - 4 August 2010 19:1064004It's a cactus !Been nice knowing you :)
- 4 August 2010 19:4364009Scotchie
- 4 August 2010 20:2364019Ooooh, lovely. I think you've found a 1970s Doctor Who monster!
Here's my best guess, a larva of an Emperor Moth! I'm not certain, but see what you think:
http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=1187 - 4 August 2010 20:3964022He's lovely Jenni
- 4 August 2010 21:5764030I reckon soo Phil..
I am planning on getting back to Harty Ferry and Oare Marshes nature reserve hopefully in the next few weeks.
Ducks and birds, and lots of butterflies.. quite liking the idea of sitting in the hides for a few hours... - 5 August 2010 09:3264076What a wonderful caterpillar Jenni, yes, it is like a cactus Paul, would look good in a pot !! Never seen one.
Here is another green one photographed in our garden, either a Privet or Poplar Hawk Moth caterpillar, not quite sure which:
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Lincolnshire Born and Bred - 5 August 2010 17:4564137Love it Kath - a beauty!
If you want to see some spectacular butterflies, take a walk up High Meadow behind the DGSB. The Konik ponies have done wonders chopping down the grass thus allowing our native chalk plants to really flourish; in turn this has allowed our native chalk butterflies to do really well. Just a quick list of a few of the butterflies I've seen up there in that one field over the last two days:
Comon Blue
Small White
Small Copper
Wall
Red Admiral
Meadow Brown
Gatekeeper
Speckled Wood
Large Skipper
Marbled White
Let alone the Noctule bat, dragonflies, Hummingbird and Privet Hawk Moths...
Hats off to the White Cliffs Countryside Project! - 5 August 2010 17:4864140Ahhh bats, hummingbirds and dragonflies - love them!
