Moth identification please.

[veggiechicken]

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?

[Kleftiwallah]

I'll have a bash at "Common Swift or Ruby Tiger".

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Try here. Cheers, Tony.

[veggiechicken]

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

[Kleftiwallah]

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.

[veggiechicken]

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

[kernowyon]

looks a bit like a Grass Eggar

[veggiechicken]

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?

[mrbadexample]

Drinker. I know because other people are clever.

[veggiechicken]

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!

[mrbadexample]

Now that he has a name its time for a decent burial!

Dislike! Dislike!

[mrbadexample]

And I have to say they're bloody good on WAB.

[veggiechicken]

What should I do then, O Mighty Moth Guru?

[mrbadexample]

I just meant I dislike the fact that he requires interring.

[veggiechicken]

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

[mrbadexample]

Oh that's all right then.