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  • Originally posted by StephenH View Post
    Caloptilia populetorum

    [imghttp://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/files/imagecache/medium/moths/Caloptilia+populetorum+3500.jpg[/img]
    Which does not begin with L, unless that is the Latin for Ladybird!!
    Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.

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    • I thought I'd edited that post, having made a double balls-up of it, first in getting the img command wrong, and secondly in not noticing this page: I was at the bottom of page 4. I thought I had indeed edited it to 'Ladybird', but obviously not. Maybe I hit the wrong button.

      Oh well - assuming that you're playing 'Ladybird':
      Moth.
      (I saw a HUGE moth, the size of a very small bird, the other day. Biggest I've ever seen.)
      Tour of my back garden mini-orchard.

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      • It's very easy to push the wrong button when 'editting'<g>
        Biggest moth normally found in UK is Convulvulus hawk moth, about 3½ inches long when at rest, wingspan probably 6 inches. Wings are sort of blotches of pink and dark grey (I am pretty sure, it is at least 10 years since I saw one).

        Nit! (as in immature louse)
        Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.

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        • (thanks for that info, both -that's really interesting re: the moths - hadn't realised there was one that big, just googled to see a pic. would love to see a hummingbird hawkmoth..anyways i digress..)


          Oil Beetle
          Last edited by tulip; 01-07-2009, 11:27 AM.

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          • pea weavil....
            A good beginning is half the work.
            Praise the young and they will make progress.

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            • Originally posted by tulip View Post
              (thanks for that info, both -that's really interesting re: the moths - hadn't realised there was one that big, just googled to see a pic. would love to see a hummingbird hawkmoth..anyways i digress..)


              Oil Beetle

              Yes the 'hummingbird' is fascinating, I have seen a few, always unexpectedly.
              I'm sure there is a Q, but I can't think of it, so I'll let someone else find it!
              Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.

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              • How about 'Quite large moth'?
                Yes, I think it was a hawk moth. A workmate found it, dead, and showed it to me.
                Tour of my back garden mini-orchard.

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                • <g>
                  Red ant!
                  Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.

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                  • soldier ant.

                    What's this <g> business everyone's doing suddenly? Is it one of these pictures you can do with letters, like :-) and :-o ? If so, I don't know it, and can't tell what it's supposed to look like. Explain, please!
                    Tour of my back garden mini-orchard.

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                    • <g>...grin??

                      Termite

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                      • Yeah, it's a grin
                        Upsidedown beetle (I don't know the proper name, but that is what we cal them. They fly around lights, such as the oil lamps we use when eating outside, crash, and land on their backs, they are about an inch long and ear-wax yellow, we see them in Spain a lot!)
                        Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.

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                        • Vine weevil
                          Tour of my back garden mini-orchard.

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                          • Woodlouse.......

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                            • xestobium rufovillosum - the death watch beetle.

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                              • Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly
                                Tour of my back garden mini-orchard.

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