Curlew

Hi all, I've been running the Hantsmoths website for the past few years and have been thinking about setting up an online community to complement it for a while now. I've now taken the plunge and set up the Hantsmoths MothTalk forum, which is aimed at moth-ers not just in Hampshire but from across t...

Hi Piers, As can be seen on the phenology graph here http://www.hantsmoths.org.uk/species/1926.php late November records in Hampshire are rare but not unknown. It only takes one caterpillar to pupate in a greenhouse or somewhere else unusually warm to result in a sighting of an early emergent adult,...

This is Celypha lacunana. I echo Zonda's sentiments, Eddie. Do you have a field guide at all? It won't help with the small stuff like this one, but if you haven't got it, then I'd recommend you get Waring, Townsend and Lewington's guide in preparation for next year.

Mike

This is a Yellow Belle Semiaspilates ochrearia

Flight-time is no guide - both fly from May into early November in two generations. Dark Marbled Carpet normally shows a more dentate (jagged) trailing edge to the median line, and often has extensive white patches; it is decidedly less common than Common Marbled in the south but often replaces it i...

The first is Celypha cespitana.

Mike