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I agree on the last picture. The middle one is Aglossa pinguinalis.
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Hi Mark.
Your first link brings up a bird picture, but I see an Old Lady moth in the same set. Is that what you mean? The second is a Pyralid known as the Large Tabby Aglossa pinguinalis. In my book it says: "the larva lives in silken galleries amongst chaff and hay refuse in barns, and also in sheep-dung....". The third is indeed a Willow Beauty.

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Oops sorry about the first one it should have been this one

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8209127@N0 ... 165516122/

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The larva is the Reed Dagger Simyra albovenosa, a nationally scarce moth.

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