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Jack
Quite! When i get a Magpie moth or an Elephaant Hawk then I won't need to ask for help. But these little brown jobs......One thing I have learnt over the years is that identifying moths is not always easy. Some I leave unidentified...
I would go for Clouded Drab as well. With this being only one of the four species I have so far had in my recently bought moth trap I have been looking at lots of photos of these. I can see myself posting lots of ID questions of my own as the season progresses.dave brown wrote:Jack,
I stand to be corrected but I think the bottom left is Clouded Drab. As mentioned previously some Northern/ Scottish moths are darker than the Southern versions, others are just variable. One thing I have learnt over the years is that identifying moths is not always easy. Some I leave unidentified whilst others I ask for confirmation.
Fascinating but at times frustrating subject.
Dave
That is more or less what I have been planning without actually realising it. I need to mimimise the maintenance so it will basically be a perennial meadow but with some areas sown annually. The big success this first year is Yellow Rattle which was just broadcast onto lightly scraped parts of the existing rough grass. Perhaps larger scraped areas for seeding in the autumn this year would be a good idea.....not possible to easily grow both perennial wildflowers and annual wildflowers in the same meadow, unless you compartmentalise it into sections.