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4 Moths help
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:13 am
by Dave McCormick
I caught these last week and need a help on id's. I just got the revised version of field guide to Moths of gret Britian which and Ireland, IMO is a very good moth book for macro's, but I could not find these, but colour drawings are different than actual images so can anyone here help?
First One:
Moth two:
Moth Three:
Moth Four (Two moths):
![Image](http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/3720/mg5946.jpg)
Re: 4 Moths help
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:39 am
by Mikhail
Hi Dave. My moth identification skills are rather rusty. I haven't run a light trap for so long, but I'm fairly confident about three of your moths.
1. Uncertain (the moth, not me.)
2. Common Rustic
3. Double Lobed
4. Large Yellow-underwing, but I'm unsure about the other one. The markings are rather vague and I think the photo is slightly unsharp. Do you have another pic.?
Misha
Re: 4 Moths help
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:58 pm
by Dave McCormick
Thanks Misha for the id's. I dobn't actually have a better image for that grey moth, btu I am nearly sure it had a green tinge in the wings that could be seen from a certian angle. Thinking it might be Brindled Green but not sure and it flies in August, not July. I have a last few images I need Id'd
Moth 1:
Moth 2:
Moth 3: (Think on is Common Footman and not scarce footman based on how its wings are not tightly together like in scarce footman)
Moth 4:
Moth 5 (Pug Moth?):
Moth 6: (Is this the Uncertian?)
![Image](http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/5170/uncertian.jpg)
Re: 4 Moths help
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:35 pm
by JKT
1 & 4:
Idaea aversata.
2: I'm pretty sure this is not found in Finland, so I leave that to others.
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3:
E. lurideolum indeed. The other one gets the same comment as the last (6).
5:
Pasiphila sp.
6: rather
Hoplodrina ambigua or
H. blanda.
The gray moth in the first series COULD BE very worn
Apamea remissa.
I thought it is impossible to tell
M. secalis apart from
M. didyma based on picture.
Re: 4 Moths help
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 12:00 pm
by Lee Hurrell
Hi,
I reckon moth 2 is a Dark Arches:
http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=52
Cheers
Lee
Re: 4 Moths help
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:15 pm
by Dave McCormick
Thanks both for help
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and yeah Lee H , looks like Dark Arches to me.