ID please!

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bobfleming70
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Location: Canterbury,Kent

ID please!

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Looked everywhere to try and find out what this is, but haven't found an answer yet...anyone help please?
Many thanks.
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MarkIvan
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Pretty Chalk Carpet - Melanthia procellata, according to my newly acquired Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland.

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ChrisC
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looks to have been out a while too so a pretty early pretty chalk carpet
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bobfleming70
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Aha! I had suspected it could be a moth and browsed moth websites but clearly didn't find it.

The species makes sense for the location - in a woodland clearing in the chalky North Downs in Kent.

Cheers guys.
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