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Large Elephant Hawk-moth / deilephila elpenor. Strumpshaw Fen, Norfolk. 09/06/16.
The last three evenings were the annual UK 'Moth Nights'.
Moth-trapping events were organised around the country to raise public awareness of these fascinating creatures as well as record species..
I would imagine that rainstorms and localised flooding forced many events to be cancelled.
The theme for this year was 'Hawk Moths' and I had looked forward to seeing what local Derbyshire traps lured in.....sadly, this was not to be!!!
It's not all bad though, as a moth trap was run at Strumpshaw Fen last Wednesday night. Several of the hawk-moth captures were placed on a reed screen the next morning, to warm up AND, joy of all joys - I WAS STILL THERE!
(The reed screen gives a rather distracting background to the images but I'm not complaining. Myself and many other visitors were able to get close to three very obliging species of hawk-moth. They were absolute beauties.)
Large Elephant Hawk-moth DSC_3618
Large Elephant Hawk-moth / deilephila elpenor. Strumpshaw Fen, Norfolk. 09/06/16.
The last three evenings were the annual UK 'Moth Nights'.
Moth-trapping events were organised around the country to raise public awareness of these fascinating creatures as well as record species..
I would imagine that rainstorms and localised flooding forced many events to be cancelled.
The theme for this year was 'Hawk Moths' and I had looked forward to seeing what local Derbyshire traps lured in.....sadly, this was not to be!!!
It's not all bad though, as a moth trap was run at Strumpshaw Fen last Wednesday night. Several of the hawk-moth captures were placed on a reed screen the next morning, to warm up AND, joy of all joys - I WAS STILL THERE!
(The reed screen gives a rather distracting background to the images but I'm not complaining. Myself and many other visitors were able to get close to three very obliging species of hawk-moth. They were absolute beauties.)