An Owl? Pt. 2 - _TNY_5755

Shooting insects and spiders is great fun. Not only the actual shooting and seeing the result, but Im beginning to like a third component of it more and more.

 

What is the third thing, you ask? Well, it is the detective work of figuring out exactly what it is I have managed to shoot!

 

These days, the internet makes it, relatively speaking, very easy to gather this information compared to the old days - but that doesn't mean it is always smooth sailing to a correct ID.

 

This particular one is another one of those moths I find outside the house when I get home from work in the middle of the night and after looking at more shots of moths than I would like to admit, I believe it to be a common grey (Scoparia ambigualis).

 

Now the English name might be as plain and bland as a moth name could possibly be, but the Swedish one is better: "föränderligt ugglemott" which translates into "variable owl moth" - doesn't that sound more exciting?

 

Part one (from the side) here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51703652682/

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