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  • #1

    Moth identification please.

    Found this one in the house this morning. It didn't seem to mind staying still for its photo
    I can't find anything similar in the identification guides. Any ideas?
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  • #2
    I'll have a bash at "Common Swift or Ruby Tiger".

    British Moths | Keyword Search | UKMoths

    Try here. Cheers, Tony.
    Last edited by Kleftiwallah; 20-08-2012, 02:00 PM. Reason: addendum
    Semper in Excrementem Altitvdo Solvs Varivs.

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    • #3
      Thanks Tony! I don't think its Common Swift as thay rest with their wings like a tent and Ruby Tiger seems to be too red.. Mine is brown with yellow splashes and a furry body

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      • #4
        AAaaaH, it's the rarity, the yellow splashed brown furry body moth. No idea what that is in latin!

        Let us know if you track it down. Cheers, Tony.
        Semper in Excrementem Altitvdo Solvs Varivs.

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        • #5
          Yeah!! That's the one, page 46B, subsection xii, as amended by Post #4 as of today's date

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          • #6
            looks a bit like a Grass Eggar
            Kernow rag nevra

            Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.
            Bob Dylan

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            • #7
              Thank you kernowyon. I'm sure you're right about it being an Eggar but, looking at Goggle I'm torn between the Grass or the Oak Eggar. Also mine has much larger sploshes on its wings, where the "eyes" are. Both are in this part of Wales ..........I do like a mystery
              Pembrokeshire Wildlife: Grass Eggar moth?

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              • #8
                Drinker. I know because other people are clever.
                Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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                • #9
                  Wow, MBE, You've found an identical moth and an identical pound coin! Amazing
                  Thank you very much for going to the trouble of identifying it for me. I rather like the thought of a Drinker Moth dropping by of an evening.......
                  I still have the poor little fellow in a glass box. Now that he has a name its time for a decent burial!

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                    Now that he has a name its time for a decent burial!
                    Dislike! Dislike!
                    Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                    By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                    While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                    At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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                    • #11
                      And I have to say they're bloody good on WAB.
                      Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                      By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                      While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                      At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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                      • #12
                        What should I do then, O Mighty Moth Guru?

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                        • #13
                          I just meant I dislike the fact that he requires interring.
                          Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                          By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                          While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                          At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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                          • #14
                            He shed his mortal coil on the living room floor one dark night, alone but not afraid. Through the magic of the internet, he has been immortalised and his name will be repeated by those who look upon his image from this day forth. - Of course he could be a she

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                            • #15
                              Oh that's all right then.
                              Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                              By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                              While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                              At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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