Moth ID please

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gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8957
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 16 11:00 am Post subject: Moth ID please
If Ayrshire is out of normal area for this, I've just been given a piece of furniture by a friend in Abergavenny...and he had bought it in a house clearance in South West Wales.....

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46249
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 16 11:10 am Post subject:
no idea but it is pretty

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8957
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 16 11:16 am Post subject:
matches the veneer on the top of the bookcase!

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 16 11:28 am Post subject:
You need Frewen or buzzy. They're the moth people I think.

buzzy

Joined: 04 Jan 2011
Posts: 3708
Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 16 11:46 am Post subject:
I think it's a Herald (Scoliopteryx libatrix). One of the species that hibernates as an adult. Used to find them a lot in caves and mines when I was looking for bats. Handsome moths. Henry

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8957
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 16 11:50 am Post subject:
Thankyou

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