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- Mon Sep 11, 2023 12:28 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Green caterpillar eating Ivy buds (Looking for Holly blue)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1399
Re: Green caterpillar eating Ivy buds (Looking for Holly blue)
Cats likely to be Yellow barred Brindle Acasis viretata.
- Mon Oct 11, 2021 12:57 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Moth from Spain
- Replies: 3
- Views: 417
Re: Moth from Spain
Grammodes bifasciata, Erebidae. Noctuelle de la salsepareille.
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- Fri Aug 20, 2021 11:34 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Chrysalis on oak
- Replies: 2
- Views: 319
Re: Chrysalis on oak
That's the Black Arches Lymantria monachaGuy.
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- Sun Jul 04, 2021 9:17 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: It's a mystery
- Replies: 7
- Views: 653
Re: It's a mystery
I suspect these are caterpillars of the Antler moth Cerapteryx graminis, which can occur in plague numbers on northern upland pastures, sometimes denuding hillsides of grass. This can lead to starvation or disease and, I daresay, intervention of the upland graziers.
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- Mon May 31, 2021 11:59 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Pieris
- Replies: 4
- Views: 371
Re: Pieris
If I was on holiday in Bulgaria I'd say mannii. I'm just a little unsure of that forewing discal spot. Over to the experts....
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- Sun Mar 21, 2021 7:47 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Clouded Yellow (Early Stages)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2533
Re: Clouded Yellow (Early Stages)
Very interesting Mike. I hadn't expected any until April this year. I haven't even seen a Peacock yet!
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- Wed Jan 20, 2021 2:28 pm
- Forum: Red Admiral
- Topic: Red Admiral - Favourite Photo of 2020
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1213
Re: Red Admiral - Favourite Photo of 2020
This beauty was nectaring on Seaside Daisy on the Southbourne cliffs, Bournemouth on 16th October, and is by a counry mile my favourite of the year.
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 7:18 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: essex buzzard
- Replies: 2627
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Re: essex buzzard
I've just been looking at your Greek lizards and I'd say the green-backed individual is the Balkan Wall Lizard Podarcis tauricus ionicus' The very dark one (the lighting is unhelpful) is probably a female Peloponnese Wall Lizard.
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- Wed Nov 11, 2020 1:31 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Larva for ID
- Replies: 2
- Views: 294
Re: Larva for ID
Looks like one of the many forms of the extremely variable larva of the Scarce Bordered Straw Helicoverpa armigera'
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- Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:24 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Caterpillar ID
- Replies: 7
- Views: 657
Re: Caterpillar ID
I refer you to the illustration on page 145 of the Field Guide to the Micro Moths of Great Britain and Ireland.
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- Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:14 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Larvae found on rock roses - South Gower
- Replies: 4
- Views: 580
Re: Larvae found on rock roses - South Gower
Certainly beetle larvae. I wonder if they could be the Rock-rose Pot Beetle, Cryptocephalus primarius a very rare species but which has been found in unprecedented numbers this year. It might be worth contactng coleoptera.org.uk. Over to you for further research!
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- Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:40 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Caterpillar ID
- Replies: 7
- Views: 657
Re: Caterpillar ID
I fear this is one of the dreaded "micros", Sylvie; almost certainly the Parsnip Moth Depressaria radiella. It is one of a number of species that feed on the flowers of various umbellifers.
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- Fri Sep 18, 2020 9:12 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Cocoon ID please
- Replies: 6
- Views: 625
Re: Cocoon ID please
My guess is a male Vapourer moth cocoon.
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- Sun Aug 16, 2020 12:59 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Spider
- Replies: 5
- Views: 386
Re: Spider
Most probably Enoplognatha ovata form ovata, Common Candy-striped spider. There is a rarer similar species that can't be excluded.
- Fri Jun 19, 2020 6:45 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: virtually N Greece - final Day 7
- Replies: 4
- Views: 498
Re: virtually N Greece - final Day 7
The skipper you thought might be orbed red underwing is not a Spialia . I do not claim any great expertise in Pyrgus , but I think you have Sandy Grizzled Skipper here Pyrgus cinarae . Your possible Idas look good,but it's useful to know that this Balkan race, now known as ssp. baldur , is apparentl...
- Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:35 am
- Forum: Books, Articles, Videos, TV
- Topic: BBC iPlayer- Countryfile- John's Home Patch
- Replies: 5
- Views: 932
Re: BBC iPlayer- Countryfile- John's Home Patch
Dave, I would take issue with your remark that Clouded Yellows rarely make it throgh the winter in any of their stages. Since I had the opportunity to monitor the deveelopment of larvae through the winter of 1998 - 1999, and the subsequent emergence of adults beginning 26 March 1999, overwintering h...
- Fri May 29, 2020 10:08 am
- Forum: Books, Articles, Videos, TV
- Topic: Good news for a change
- Replies: 1
- Views: 503
Good news for a change
Search large heath guardian for some good news.
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- Wed May 27, 2020 6:32 am
- Forum: Foodplants and Gardening
- Topic: Green Hairstreak
- Replies: 4
- Views: 693
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:30 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: Painted Lady caterpillar
- Replies: 2
- Views: 390
Painted Lady caterpillar
10 Jan 2020 This afternoon I found a barely half grown Painted Lady caterpillar on Echium pininana in the Boscombe cliff gardens above Honeycombe (sic) chine. I had earlier found a virtually fully grown larva on this food-plant on 3 November. This Echium is one of several gigantic species endemic to...
- Mon Oct 28, 2019 2:31 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Padfield
- Replies: 4406
- Views: 1143523
Re: Padfield
As Wurzel says, it is a case of a Psychidae a family regarded as microlepidopterous in GB but often placed among the macros in Europe. Yours looks very like the case of Psyche casta, a very common species in this country.
See: http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Psyche_Casta.
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See: http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Psyche_Casta.
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