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Beautiful moth which we found it on the bus stop. It was really nice and big :)
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/10080687@N04] - Thanks for help with it's name :)
Poplar hawk-moth (Laothoe populi) is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found throughout the Palearctic region and the Near East and is one of the most common members of the family in the region. This is a large (wingspan 70–100 mm), odd-looking, species, looks like a cluster of dead leaves of the main host, poplar. It feeds mainly on poplar and aspen but sometimes on willow, alder, apple, birch, elm, oak and ash. The food plant often depends on location.
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Piękna ćma spotkana na przystanku autobusowym :)
Nastrosz topolowiec (Laothoe populi) - owad z rzędu motyli. Skrzydła o rozpiętości 70-86 mm, jasnoszare do szaroróżowych, z wyraźnymi, falistymi przepaskami. Owady dorosłe można spotkać w lipcu i sierpniu. Gąsienice żerują od czerwca do końca września. Podstawowymi roślinami żywicielskimi są różne gatunki topoli, dodatkowymi wierzby. Typowe biotopy tego motyla to ogrody, lasy liściaste i mieszane oraz parki.
Thank you Peter Schmidt www.flickr.com/photos/139478944@N08/ for the Identification of this Moth. 👍
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Was a thrill to meet this beauty! Spotted in someone's polytunnel! Placed on the external door frame after taking the pics!
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Cornwall - July 2015
This is the aptly named African sundowner moth which has a real taste for alcoholic drinks. Here it is finding a gap between top and bottle of our dinner wine - which we take for medicinal purposes.
Stunning creature as so many moths are.
I was taking lots of photos of these small moths that were feeding on (I think) swamp milkweed blossoms in the Pineland Farms flower garden today. I somehow managed to get a decent photo of one in flight. They fly very fast and are quite small. They are also called hummingbird moths as their flight behavior is similar to a humming bird. The long curled proboscis is used to obtain nectar from the flowers.
Keeping going with strong colours as themes for backgrounds at present, gone dark with this one. Not a clue for the name of this moth...... any ideas / suggestions appreciated
Macroglossum stellatarum
Canon EOS 5DS R
TAMRON 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010
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A wonderfully colourful collection of moths all found in my porch on the same morning
l to r
SMALL MAGPIE MOTH
The Small Magpie is common, easily disturbed by day and often attracted to light. The caterpillar feeds from a rolled or spun leaf in August and September before spending the winter in a tough silk cocoon in a hollow stem or under the bark.
GARDEN TIGER MOTH
The Garden Tiger is on the wing towards the end of the summer, during July and August. It is a night-flying moth of scrub-covered sand dunes, woodland edges, wet meadows, parks and gardens. The striking caterpillars are large, black and covered in long, dense, black and ginger hairs and they are commonly called 'Woolly Bears'. They feed on stinging nettles, dock leaves and many garden plants.
CANARY SHOULDERED THORN MOTH
Aptly named after the canary-yellow thorax, or 'shoulders', this is a fairly common species all over Britain.
It has a single generation which flies from July to October, and is regularly attracted to artificial light.
It frequents woodland, gardens and a range of other habitats, and the larvae feed on a variety of deciduous trees.
By now I'm not surprised when one of these turns up on any of our flowers. The mistflowers are re-emerging now, and this moth decided that a mistflower was a good place to park for a while...
I found this moth on a shop window, I have no idea what moth it is, so as always, ID help appreciated : o ) Im sorry to post and run, I'll try to catch up later x Thank you to Alison, a fuscata form Dotted Border.
Although my main aim was to find Butterflies and Moths, I certainly did not pass up other opportunities as they arose.
I suppose this Grasshopper species has a name, I am more than fine with the ID simply being "Grasshopper" It was quite small, but slightly smaller yet and out of the frame were two more grasshoppers huddled together, but completely green except for dark brown eyes. I am only guessing that they perhaps were younger versions of this one.
I have always thought that these armour coated creatures were pretty cool, while being quite ugly looking.
Crossgates Quarry, Scarborough. 2017
I must confess that I had no idea what this moth was called when I first spotted it. I am grateful to everyone who helped with identification.
On Saturday, I did my first Moth Week event of the year. Three more to go. This time I was invited to setup for a city park for their first ever moth night. The next two are state parks. Then my friend's garden. I am not a moth expert (I like talking about spiders more), but I know enough and it is fun to share what I do know with people.
We had over 40 moth species at the park. I am sure there were many more, but it is hard to photograph everything while educating visitors about them. But that means less effort posting them all to iNaturalist. I would know hardly anything about moths if not for iNaturalist.
This Rindgea moth is very common here but can't be identified to species. I don't often get a chance to do an artistic moth shot. Moth sheets aren't very aesthetic. This one landed on some leaves just as I turned off my lights.
Tussock Moth Caterpillar. Milkweed makes them poisonous to predators. Orange and black colors are the warning sign similar to Monarch butterflies.
This day-flying moth (Nannobotys commortalis) is not much larger than a rice grain, and almost invisible when roosting on sand. But as with a lot of cryptic species, up close its pattern and coloration are anything but drab. I've found several of these in the Mojave Desert this spring.
another hawkmoth that I had not seen before having shots of most other animals birds and insects it makes me think that I am only scratching the surface with moths
Print size 4' x 11'.
Stacked and stitched using pixel shift on the Panasonic G9.
There was another moth but it walked off, pretty hit and miss with live subjects but sometimes it works out.
But it didn’t look giant size to me, probably less than two inches from top to bottom here. The web page I found that identified it says its wingspan is 3 inches: www.animalspot.net/giant-leopard-moth.html
iPhone 8+ photo – not a black and white photo, but rather a color photo of a black and white moth on a gray surface (a metal mailbox).