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Moth ID please
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 1:50 pm
by CFB
Seen today when watering the garden. At about 200 metres altitude in the Alpes-Maritimes. Quite big, about the size of a Red Admiral.
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Colin
Re: Moth ID please
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 2:19 pm
by Padfield
Hi Coin. That's a female oak eggar, Lasiocampa quercus. See:
http://ukmoths.org.uk/species/lasiocamp ... us/female/
Guy
Re: Moth ID please
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 2:39 pm
by CFB
Thanks a lot Guy, that's great. There's a photo in Tristan Lafranchis's book "Papillons de France" but I didn't recognize it, as mine was much paler (a female?)
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Colin
Re: Moth ID please
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 2:58 pm
by Padfield
Yes, she's a female. The antennae give that away immediately.
Guy
Re: Moth ID please
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 1:01 pm
by Sylvie_h
Thanks Guy for the link and information.
I saw one Oak Eggar female (on the ground also) at Whiteford Burrows on Saturday 5th September and until I read this thread, I had mistaken it with the Fox Moth...
Also, I've just read that the Fox moth is around in May June whereas the Eggar Moth is out later until late September....
Sylvie