www.ukbutterflies.co.uk

I am pretty sure this is not a butterfly! But my interrogations of various insect id websites have not delivered, largely due to my complete ignorance of what I am looking for and how to describe it.

I'm pretty sure that it's a micro moth, but I have no idea which one.

Sorry, Denise

No need for sorry, you gave me just enough to go on (I think). I am plumping for Garden Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia culmella as seen on the following website http://www.ukbirds.net/micromoths.shtml.

Thanks.

Looks about right to me. See http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=4139
Unless someone else knows better.

Denise

No, wait a minute, maybe the Pearl Veneer moth Agriphila straminella as seen here http://www.norfolkmoths.org.uk/micros.p ... z&show=com. I think that is better.

What are those jaws on the front for?

Stuart

stusk wrote: What are those jaws on the front for?

I belive that is called the palpi, and I think that this is used to protect the proboscis. Don't worry, they're not jaws, and they don't bite.

Denise

I was bitten by a flying insect yesterday, and my arm is up like a tennis ball. Oh! sorry,,,i think it's a moth.

Denise wrote:

stusk wrote: What are those jaws on the front for?

I belive that is called the palpi, and I think that this is used to protect the proboscis. Don't worry, they're not jaws, and they don't bite.

Denise

Yeah, but I don't think those moths actually feed, if they do, I have never seen them do so. There is a few types of those that are common. But there are actually a few moths that can nip the skin, but fourtunitally, they don't exist in UK.