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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:16 pm
by 55bloke
Hmmm, that's a tough one! Looks most like the 1st one- the arrangement of markings is a good match, bit it looks darker than the ones I saw (there were lots of them flying in the garden)
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:43 am
by hjalava
Tymo wrote:trapezina
tristella
lurideola
silaceata
truncicolella
quercana
Agreed, but 4. is
capitata.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:46 am
by hjalava
The last one is P. auratus.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:04 pm
by JKT
hjalava wrote:Agreed, but 4. is capitata.
I don't think so. The back is not quite yellow enough. Besides it would be a new species for GB - I think.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 11:46 pm
by hjalava
OK. On my laptop screen it looked v e r y yellow, but the inner fasciae are as in
silaceata.
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 3:06 pm
by Dave McCormick
Is this a winter moth:
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 6:01 pm
by JKT
Either that or the Northern Winter Moth. They are rather difficult to tell apart from a picture.
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:45 pm
by Dave McCormick
Well, there is only a few places in Northern Ireland that the Northern Winter moth is found and none where I saw this, in Co Down. Thats why I thought it to be a winter moth. Hard to spot on the bark of a yew tree.
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 1:11 pm
by Charles Nicol
yew did well to spot it !!
merry Christmas Dave
charles
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 1:38 pm
by Lance
Ho ho ho
Re: Few Moths again
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:36 am
by Matsukaze
This one ought to be easy, but I cannot find a match. Some sort of pyralid species surely?
Collard Hill, Somerset. 8 June 2007.
Re: Few Moths again
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:29 am
by hjalava
Pyrausta despicatus. Larva on Plantago.
Re: Few Moths again
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:23 am
by Lance
yes despicata
Re: Few Moths again
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:37 pm
by Matsukaze
Thanks folks.