Moth identification please.

[veggiechicken]

Another Moth identification please!

Can anyone put a name to this moth? It flew up when I was weeding and landed on a hogweed, where it has stayed for the last hour.
Its markings are a green/yellow that looks almost velvety.

[mothhawk]

Well, I didn't know, but I had a search through me book and it's a Burnished Brass, one of the few species that has a decent common name instead of a couple of unpronounceable Latin ones. It's funny how I can learn and remember ones with common names, like cinnabar moth, tiger moth, magpie moth. Can't imagine why

Burnished Brass Diachrysia chrysitis - UKMoths

edit - its babies should be giving you a hand clearing the nettles VC. Lovely pic by the way.

[veggiechicken]

Thanks Mothawk!! I searched that site but couldn't identify him.
The moth is still where I left him and the sun on his wings turns them to the green of the hogweed. Couldn't get a decent photo showing it but here's another one. I'd like to see him with his wings open

[mothhawk]

Sometimes treeware still has advantages over software. I flicked through my Collins Gem Guide to "Butterflies and Moths" and found it in about a minute and a half

[veggiechicken]

That's the little beauty!! I'm away from my books at the moment but I'd normally go to those first too So much more satisfying

[Indigo23]

What a beautiful creature!

[veggiechicken]

He's still sitting on his leaf - I've just been out with a torch to find him
The Drinker Moth that started this thread is, embarrassingly, still in his glass coffin and sitting on the table beside me - almost a year after I promised to give it a decent burial

[mothhawk]

He's still sitting on his leaf - I've just been out with a torch to find him
The Drinker Moth that started this thread is, embarrassingly, still in his glass coffin and sitting on the table beside me - almost a year after I promised to give it a decent burial

not to worry VC, I'm sure he's already "gone into the light..."

[mothhawk]

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[veggiechicken]

He's in one of those magnifying specimen jars - looking huge! He'll have to make way for another objet soon

[frogga]

Any idea what type of moth this is?

[Olorin2001]

Man walks into a dentist and tells the receptionist he thinks he's a moth.
The receptionist says - This is a dentist's why did you come in here.
Man replies - Because the light was on.

[Martin H]

Might be a Mottled Beauty? Mottled Beauty Moth

[frogga]

Thanks Martin, what an incredible creature considering its size

[Lady Em]

Burnished Brass moth

Well, I didn't know, but I had a search through me book and it's a Burnished Brass, one of the few species that has a decent common name instead of a couple of unpronounceable Latin ones. It's funny how I can learn and remember ones with common names, like cinnabar moth, tiger moth, magpie moth. Can't imagine why

Burnished Brass Diachrysia chrysitis - UKMoths

edit - its babies should be giving you a hand clearing the nettles VC. Lovely pic by the way.

Thanks for that ID, I've been searching & looking at moth pics since last August as I found one in my garden too. So glad this old thread hasn't disappeared