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Moth ID
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 2:19 pm
by Goldie M
Can anyone identify this moth for me please, Goldie M
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Re: Moth ID
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 4:09 pm
by Jack Harrison
Silver-ground Carpet. See my picture:
and more authoritavely:
http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=29
Jack
Re: Moth ID
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:32 pm
by Goldie M
Thanks Jack . Goldie M
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Re: Moth ID
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:50 pm
by Jack Harrison
The classic boring brown job (well grey actually). The only points of interest are:
1. how it folds its wings well round its body.
2. she laid hundreds of tiny black eggs in the collecting pot. I have already released the moth but need an i/d to know where to scatter the eggs.
Size about 1.5 cms long.
Jack
Re: Moth ID
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:35 pm
by Denise
Hi Jack,
That could be a very worn Common Swift. The same thing happened to me. I scattered the eggs in long grass.
Denise
Re: Moth ID
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:38 pm
by Rimo
It is Common Swift - the females are dark brown-grey, as here, whereas the males are a far brighter orange. The larvae food on the roots of grasses, and the female usually lays fairly indiscriminantly in flight
Re: Moth ID
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:48 pm
by Jack Harrison
I didn't think of Common Swift. The female is remarkably lacking in patterning, more so in real life than in the books. I'm familiar enough with the males.
Jack