Let's go micro! As well as about 900 larger #moth species in the UK, there are nearly 2000 micros, some barely a couple of mm long. Many of these are from the TORTRICIDAE family, or leaf-rollers. Here are four that visited me last night:
The Buff-tip moth has evolved to resemble a snapped off Silver Birch twig and so the moth, on finding a stick, will embrace it and stay very still in the hope that nobody notices it... #teamMoth#mothsMatter
You're a bird, flying in looking for tasty morsels in the shrubbery. Ooh, what's that, something fluttered by and landed? You investigate...sheeeyit there's a sharp-eyed mammal staring back at you!
Numerous Green Longhorn, Adela reaumurella, out again when it was sunny for a second or two on Thursday, I'd seen half a dozen in a different part of the wood the day before.
Those "wires" are the males' antennae, which are about three times as long as his wings.
I used 1/8000s shutter speed, which was about as long as the sun shone
Nice 9.2km run this morn after checking, IDing and releasing my mothological visitors overnight.
This one is stumping me and I am 70-30 torn in favour of Oak-tree pug vs Brindled Pug.
Two humans and two AI apps have suggested both, and my own research is inconclusive. But pale marking near the distal spot + wing shape bend me more towards Oak-tree.