Thursday 1 June 2017

A Recent Tale of an Unmarried Moth'er

It was an unresolvable teaser as to which 'header photograph'
should grace the month of June 2017 so, for today at least
it's 3 for the price of 1 with additionally
 SALVIN'S (Shy) ALBATROSS
(same location, same date and a finalé later)
As time simply does not allow us to send our images to the various
Web Sites, such as the Dorset Moth Group, we decided instead it was
probably a good idea to publish a number of images here.
Not to everyone's liking we know from feedback,
but just look at the diversity of these seldom seen creatures by the
Casual Observer.
Each of these has been captured, photographed and released unharmed,
over the past 3 to 5 days!
 GHOST SWIFT
 FOX MOTH
 The 'Big Daddy' of this selection
 PINE HAWK-MOTH
 GREY BIRCH
 COMMON LUTESTRING
 OBLIQUE CARPET
 SMALL YELLOW WAVE
 FOXGLOVE PUG
 TREBLE-BAR
 A particular favourite, the most bizarre
 SCORCHED WING
 PALE OAK BEAUTY
GRASS WAVE
While we often proclaim
"we don't do Micros" (usually the smaller of the Moths)
what we do do is undeniable and pure beauty
which is the case with garden pea size
ALABONIA GEOFFRELLA
 MARBLED BROWN
 PALE TUSSOCK
 another favourite better seen 'in the flesh'

 RED-NECKED FOOTMAN


BIRCH MOCHA
 Both light and dark morph
 CORONET
 and the small

ROSY MARBLED
BROWN RUSTIC
 SMALL DOTTED BUFF
 PINE BEAUTY
DENTATED PUG
 DINGY SHELL
 GREEN PUG
 My cohort on a couple of these adventures
DAVE FOOT
MARBLED WHITE SPOT
 CREAM-SPOT TIGER
 PEPPERED MOTH
 along with the 'dark morph' carbonaria.
 PEBBLE HOOK-TIP
 FOUR-DOTTED FOOTMAN
 ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH
 BORDERED WHITE
 LOBSTER MOTH
b
 CREAM-BORDERED GREEN PEA
GOLD SWIFT
 In addition, this year we have also picked up 5 new species for our
Recording Area
such as this
NORTHERN DRAB
DWARF PUG
would you believe we have 'lost' our best image of
PORTLAND RIBBON WAVE
 the last time we caught this Moth with a local connection was during the mid-70's!
BROKEN-BARRED CARPET
FLAME CARPET
 WESTERN PETREL
(same, same as a finalé)
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