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Sorry number two is not at all clear. I filmed these at Reach in Cambridgeshire in 1981/2 Can you please tell me what they are?
Thanks

First one is a female Gatekeeper 100%

The second one I think is a male Small White 99%

The third one I think is a male Green-veined White 99%

Thank you

Moth i/d please.
Nairn (80 metres above sea level) Second individual trapped. Almost a Chestnut but the white spots confuse. Can't find in any of my moth guides. About 1.4 cms long

Colour and contrast exaggerated to show features.

Jack

Hi Jack,
I know nothing about moths but a bit of crafty Googling came up with this:
The Satellite
http://ukmoths.org.uk/species/eupsilia-transversa

Does this help ?
Cheers, Chris

Satellite fits perfectly. Thanks.

And this I think is a Spring Usher but can anyone confirm?Jack

Hi Jack, your last entry is a Pale Brindled Beauty (Phigalia pilosaria)

Thanks downland boy for the i/d. But differentiating Pale Brindled Beauty and Spring Usher makes Small and Essex Skippers a piece of cake.

I'll run the trap again tonight. I only do so on alternate nights so as to give the moths the opportunity to do 'mothy business' on the other nights.

Jack

Hi Jack,

Not sure about that - unlike the skippers the moths generally keep still and allow you to take a good look...

With many of these variably coloured moths it helps to take a look at morphology - wing shape, the furriness of the antennae, etc - the colours may change but the shape and structure of the moth do not. Spring Usher has a distinctive curiously exaggerated rounded wingtip.

I wouldn't mind getting some Hawk Moths - at least they are easy to identify.

Three more from a couple of days ago. Slightly overdone contrast as [perhaps] help to ident.

Possibly Common Quaker. Early Grey??? Geometer. Trap just set tonight, the alternate day.

Thanks to all who help with the i/ds. I can do butterflies (usually but moths.....

Jack

Hi Jack,

Clouded Drab (a highly variable species), March Moth (male) & Dotted Border (male) are your moths.

regards
Scott.