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Moths, butterflies & caterpillars

by Tam & Sam

133 photos and 4 videos · 32 views
Black Swallowtail Caterpillar
White Plume Moth (Pterophorus pentadactyla) #1
Female Vapourer Moth
Black Arches Moth - antennae
Black Arches Moth - underside
Black Arches Moth - on the wall
I am invisible...
Speckled eyes
Twirly wirly
Peacock Butterfly
Dust and all...
Brimstone Moth
Where do I put this huge tongue?
Red Admiral underside - with unidentified green object
Red Admiral up high on Buddleia
Red Admiral
Tiny caterpillar (from blackberry)
Caterpillar mugshot [Explored Sep 14, 2012 #446]
Munching away...
Fourth caterpillar
Full length caterpillar
Small caterpillar eating
Then there were four!
Butterfly
I'm an eating machine! Munch, munch, munch...
Garden Tiger on the march
Garden Tiger caterpillar - can you see the tiny beetle?
Gothic moth caterpillar
Gothic moth in its full glory (reared from caterpillar)
Gothic moth (reared from caterpillar)
Ladybird pupa
I'm so small...
I'm so hairy...
Butterfly portrait
Blue eyed tiny moth
Brimstone
Transluscent baby caterpillars (1-2 days old)
Naughty moth
Peacock sunbathing
Silver Y drinking from a thistle
Moth portrait 2 - Orange Swift (male)
Photoshoot 1: Pebble Prominent Moth - caterpillar (next to 1 pence coin)
Photoshoot 1: Pebble Prominent Moth - caterpillar
Phtoshoot 2: A suitable name
Photoshoot 3: "Am I related to a shark?"
Photoshoot 3: "I have an amazing looking head..."
I did not realise that caterpillars shed the skin from their heads like this!!!
Photoshoot 4: growing nicely
Photoshoot 4: One of the other two
Photoshoot 4: I'm loosing my head (2)!
Munch, munch, munch...
The last of the Mohicans...
Caterpillar the day before pupation
Large swallowtail caterpillar munching away
Tiny green caterpillar amongst moss sporophytes
Oh! I have a mite on my head!!!!!
So many hairs on such a small green caterpillar...
Mimicry at work (no ID yet)
Yellow and gorgeous (Yellow dung fly)
Watch out for the frogs!!!
This morning's find
Lovely silky white moth
What is this mite up to?
Six-spot Burnet (Zygaena filipendulae) - [Explored Jun 27, 2014 #80]
Hairy head [Explored then dropped Jun 30, 2014 #15]
Upside down
Potter wasp eating its prey
A fly on a thistle
Butterfly portrait
Horse chestnut leaf miner moths
Emerging caterpillars
Caterpillarscape - see emerging caterpillar on the left
Moth (no ID yet)
Holly blue butterfly
Straight from my mobile phone
Caterpillar - pink with chevrons [Explored, then dropped Sep 13, 2014 #479]
That's what I call bendy! [Explored then dropped Sep 14, 2014 #432]
And today... a caterpillar - green with chevrons [Explored then dropped Sep 13, 2014 #500]
Male Vapourer moth
What a heavy load... [Explored Sep 21, 2014 #53]
American Cockroach
Beautiful caterpillar
Defying gravity #01
Tiny caterpillar
Who? What? Where? (the confused butterfly)
Shield bug close-up
What goes in... (see next photo)
Scorpion fly (female)
Vapourer moth caterpillar
Vapourer moth caterpillar and its shedded skin (frontal view 2)
Vapourer moth caterpillar and its shedded skin (frontal view 1)
Vapourer moth caterpillar and its shedded skin
Comma buterfly caterpillar
Top and tail
Beautiful Fritillary
Hoverfly - HFDF!
Wonky straw
Beautiful processionary caterpillars
Let me back in - it's raining!!!
Double reflection
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