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Fozzybear

Ich bin ein Vogelbeobachter

• Aug 15, 2009

• #1

Having left my back door open this evening I went down to close it and then when I put on the kitchen light this big moth flew around! I think it's an 'Old Lady', around 4-5cm across at the rear. Smaller than the hawk moths I've seen but certainly the biggest I've had in my house!

I used a torch to guide it out the door, no moths were harmed in the making of this post.

 

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Davebutterflyman

Well-known member

• Aug 15, 2009

• #2

Great photos and that certainly is Old lady Mormo maura.

Dave.

 

Fozzybear

Ich bin ein Vogelbeobachter

• Aug 15, 2009

• #3

Thanks Dave. When I first saw it it was silhouetted and at first I thought it was another Peacock butterfly (had one in the kitchen recently) but when it landed on the glass I realised it was very different. I knew I'd have to try to get a photo and dashed around the house looking for my camera and for my macro lens! ||

Just over the last week or so I've had a Peacock butterfly, an Old Lady and a Banded Demoiselle in my kitchen. Plus a Collared Dove that pretty much comes in the door and earlier in the summer I used to have a Robin flying into the kitchen and perching on the worktop begging for suet pellets! Seems a popular kitchen for wildlife! :-O

 

Davebutterflyman

Well-known member

• Aug 15, 2009

• #4

Seems that way! had a Poplar hawkmoth in my mothers kitchen when i lived in Cheshire and it scared her half to death!

Dave.

 

Fozzybear

Ich bin ein Vogelbeobachter

• Aug 16, 2009

• #5

Wow, that's pretty cool. I've seen some BIG moths around here (saw a huge one in a pedestrian underpass a few weeks ago) but don't know names of moths, all I remember is that it was quite a few inches across! We had one like that on my parent's shed when I was a kid and I was amazed at the size, still am with these big'uns, just asonishing how big they can be!

 

antshrike69

Well-known member

• Aug 16, 2009

• #6

Very nice and yes, they're big beasts.

I got into work one day lat week to find a client had brought a 'bat' into the surgery which she'd found in her kitchen apparently injured. The nurses were struggling to persuade her it was a moth and I had to ID it for her as a Poplar Hawk to convince her it wasn't a Pipistrelle!

 

Fozzybear

Ich bin ein Vogelbeobachter

• Aug 16, 2009

• #7

But it's big and furry - it MUST be a bat!

Noticed your 'bat' tally - 373 is a a lot of species! I know there are a lot but just identifying that many is quite impressive... takes me ages to ID just one!

 

antshrike69

Well-known member

• Aug 16, 2009

• #8

Me too! That's why I spend so much time on this site... ;-)