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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