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Moth ID
- Jack Harrison
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and more authoritavely:- Jack Harrison
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Re: Moth ID
The classic boring brown job (well grey actually). The only points of interest are:
![Image](http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac85/Jack_Harrison/PB-10-06-08-.jpg?t=1276026088)
1. how it folds its wings well round its body.
2. she laid hundreds of tiny black eggs in the collecting pot. I have already released the moth but need an i/d to know where to scatter the eggs.
Size about 1.5 cms long.
Jack
![Image](http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac85/Jack_Harrison/PB-10-06-08-.jpg?t=1276026088)
1. how it folds its wings well round its body.
2. she laid hundreds of tiny black eggs in the collecting pot. I have already released the moth but need an i/d to know where to scatter the eggs.
Size about 1.5 cms long.
Jack
Re: Moth ID
Hi Jack,
That could be a very worn Common Swift. The same thing happened to me. I scattered the eggs in long grass.
Denise
That could be a very worn Common Swift. The same thing happened to me. I scattered the eggs in long grass.
Denise
Re: Moth ID
It is Common Swift - the females are dark brown-grey, as here, whereas the males are a far brighter orange. The larvae food on the roots of grasses, and the female usually lays fairly indiscriminantly in flight
- Jack Harrison
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I didn't think of Common Swift. The female is remarkably lacking in patterning, more so in real life than in the books. I'm familiar enough with the males.
![Image](http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac85/Jack_Harrison/PB-10-05-31-006-CommonSwift.jpg?t=1276029804)
Jack
![Image](http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac85/Jack_Harrison/PB-10-05-31-006-CommonSwift.jpg?t=1276029804)
Jack