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
#Butterflies get all the love, but do not tell me that moths are not their equal if not their better … including these common #autumn wonders that visited last night
Merveille du jour (the mint choc chip #icecream of the moth world)
Ran the moth trap last night on a warm, still night. Surprised by lack of thorns, black rustics, frosted oranges and brindled greens. But still plenty of feathered ranunculus and various yellow underwings about
My four for you today:
Light Emerald - ghostly but with blood-tipped wings
Been a couple of weeks since I’ve done some #mothing. Noticeable switch from summer #moths to #autumn moths now. Mild last night brought out some beauties:
Some amazing mothing in Suffolk last week, courtesy of a couple of excellent nature reserves. More than 25 species I'd never seen before including these beauties: Pine Hawk-moth, Blackneck, Lempke's Gold Spot and Beautiful China-mark. #TeamMoth#Mothtodon#Moths