Moth ID
- Jack Harrison
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and more authoritavely:- Jack Harrison
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The classic boring brown job (well grey actually). The only points of interest are:
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
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.
Jack
Jack