Surreybirder
Ken Noble
On Harry's promptings I've tried to ID these myself.
My guesses are: blood-vein, common wave and some sort of Tortrix (it was about 8mm long and the wings were very pointed... sort of cut away so that the outside length of the wing was significantly greater than the inside, when at rest--hard to express but sort of lime hawkmoth-shaped wings). I saw them whilst walking the dog. In fact there seemed to be quite a few moths in some set-aside, including a rather bright orange one, but they wouldn't let me photo them. I also saw what I think was a silver ground carpet at the same site a couple of days ago, but same prob.
I also saw my first small copper of the year... one of my favourites!
And we had three broad-bodied chasers and 18+ azure damselflies on our garden pond at lunch time.
My guesses are: blood-vein, common wave and some sort of Tortrix (it was about 8mm long and the wings were very pointed... sort of cut away so that the outside length of the wing was significantly greater than the inside, when at rest--hard to express but sort of lime hawkmoth-shaped wings). I saw them whilst walking the dog. In fact there seemed to be quite a few moths in some set-aside, including a rather bright orange one, but they wouldn't let me photo them. I also saw what I think was a silver ground carpet at the same site a couple of days ago, but same prob.
I also saw my first small copper of the year... one of my favourites!
And we had three broad-bodied chasers and 18+ azure damselflies on our garden pond at lunch time.
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