Can someone help me with this please?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:13 am
I know this is about butterfly id's, but you all seem very knowledgeable and I have no idea what this is, please can anyone help?
If it's a butterfly it's not like any I've seen, the same applies to dragonflies and it's not a lacewing, I don't know much about moths.
Head to tail length is about 1"+; it's antenna are over 2 times it's body length; it had four wings; six legs; an earwig look to it's tail end and lime green in colour.
I live in the countryside and have quite a variety of butterflies, moths, dragonflies and other flying insects around. I found this creature floating early one morning on my new, 6 month old pond. The pond has sticklebacks and normal water life; no non-native weed and two or three waterlilys, but the pond seems too new for anything to have hatched from there. It's body looked soft, but that could have been from the water, one underwing was damaged.
The photos of the subject in question are quite large, so I've put two of them on a spare web page at www dot zest-it dot com/bitsbobs dot htm they are too big for here.
I hope someone can help, thank you in anticipation, Jacqui
If it's a butterfly it's not like any I've seen, the same applies to dragonflies and it's not a lacewing, I don't know much about moths.
Head to tail length is about 1"+; it's antenna are over 2 times it's body length; it had four wings; six legs; an earwig look to it's tail end and lime green in colour.
I live in the countryside and have quite a variety of butterflies, moths, dragonflies and other flying insects around. I found this creature floating early one morning on my new, 6 month old pond. The pond has sticklebacks and normal water life; no non-native weed and two or three waterlilys, but the pond seems too new for anything to have hatched from there. It's body looked soft, but that could have been from the water, one underwing was damaged.
The photos of the subject in question are quite large, so I've put two of them on a spare web page at www dot zest-it dot com/bitsbobs dot htm they are too big for here.
I hope someone can help, thank you in anticipation, Jacqui