Clouded-bordered Brindle

All Moths

Folder: Wild Kingdom
Moths and Caterpillars I've been lucky enough to photograph.
Clouded-bordered Brindle

Clouded-bordered Brindle

21 May 2014 172
Stars of the catch for 20 May 1014
Lime Hawk-moth

Lime Hawk-moth

21 May 2014 4 4 310
Stars of the catch for 20 May 1014 We've seen these moths on outings but this is the first time we've had them on the balcony.
Lime Hawk-moth Two For One

Lime Hawk-moth Two For One

21 May 2014 4 269
Stars of the catch for 20 May 1014 We've seen these moths on outings but this is the first time we've had them on the balcony. Two in one night!
Lime Hawk-moth

Lime Hawk-moth

21 May 2014 2 2 241
Stars of the catch for 20 May 1014 We've seen these moths on outings but this is the first time we've had them on the balcony.
Pale Tussock Dark Colour Form

Pale Tussock Dark Colour Form

20 May 2014 173
Stars of the catch for 19 May 2014. This color form of the Pale Tussock was also seen a lot around Sussex this year. Would be interesting to know if the caterpillars or pupae of this form are darker as well or if the wet weather helped this color survive better this wet winter, with no snow and wetter darker trees, they over winter as a pupa, but you never know.
Aethes smeathmanniana

Aethes smeathmanniana

18 May 2014 1 168
Mother Shipton

Mother Shipton

18 May 2014 4 4 368
Lovely day flying moth named after old Mother Shipton, a 16th-century Yorkshire witch, because of the old hags on each wing, can you see them looking at each other?
Elachista argentella Moth

Elachista argentella Moth

18 May 2014 2 215
Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet Caterpillar

Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet Caterpillar

18 May 2014 1 1 222
We saw a few of these already pupated, won't be long now :)
Speckled Yellow Moth

Speckled Yellow Moth

16 May 2014 2 1 290
Loads of these flying about right now, everyone always thinks they are butterflies :)
Cocksfoot Moth

Cocksfoot Moth

16 May 2014 165
Tiny little moths flitting about
Silver-ground Carpet

Silver-ground Carpet

04 May 2014 2 2 291
Gave a run for my money, but I finally got him to pose :)
Adela reaumurella Female

Adela reaumurella Female

04 May 2014 2 272
Or as I like to call them Fairy Moths, you'll know what I mean if you've ever seen a group of them hovering around in the still sun above shrubs and low trees.
Bloxworth Snout

Bloxworth Snout

29 Apr 2014 1 195
29 April 2014 This was a moth I found walking home from the Post Office one day, just up the street from our house. It is a Red Data Book Species and on the increase around most south coastal counties. Finding this one at this time of year suggests it over wintered and is a resident rather than a migrant. The wet mild winter seems to have helped this species because we had several Sussex reports this year.
Great Prominent

Great Prominent

27 Apr 2014 2 3 291
A few moths from our recent Moth Trapping event for Sussex Moth Group, Hastings Branch at Brede High Woods 26 April 2014
Cryptoblabes bistriga

Cryptoblabes bistriga

27 Apr 2014 167
A few moths from our recent Moth Trapping event for Sussex Moth Group, Hastings Branch at Brede High Woods 26 April 2014
Square Spot

Square Spot

27 Apr 2014 1 155
A few moths from our recent Moth Trapping event for Sussex Moth Group, Hastings Branch at Brede High Woods 26 April 2014
Lunar Thorn

Lunar Thorn

27 Apr 2014 1 1 215
A few moths from our recent Moth Trapping event for Sussex Moth Group, Hastings Branch at Brede High Woods 26 April 2014
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