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Birdforum in general seems to have dwindled into a fairly small number of contributors, the same names on every thread.

It all gets a bit predicable. Some variation of the saying "never meet your heroes because they are sure to disappoint"! Seems to come into play!

Or maybe all the others are sneaking about getting their year-lists up! :-O

John
 
Birdforum in general seems to have dwindled into a fairly small number of contributors, the same names on every thread.

It all gets a bit predicable. Some variation of the saying "never meet your heroes because they are sure to disappoint"! Seems to come into play!

I have no idea how to interpret this or any of the rest of it?
 
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All from archives. Southern Birdwing, Atlas moth and a Death'shead Hawk moth..

Jp
 

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All from archives. Southern Birdwing, Atlas moth and a Death'shead Hawk moth..

Jp

Ten out of ten... now that's what we like!

Is that Eastern Death's Head Hawk-moth as seen on the cinema advert for Silence of the Lambs? To me it doesn't quite look like our European one, colours are off.

Cheers

John
 
Ten out of ten... now that's what we like!

Is that Eastern Death's Head Hawk-moth as seen on the cinema advert for Silence of the Lambs? To me it doesn't quite look like our European one, colours are off.

Cheers

John

Exactly, stunning shots!

This is one of my favourites from Belarus, Purple-shot Copper.
 

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I'm afraid I have next to no pics of exotic lepidoptera, other than this beaut that decided to hang off a scope while we were looking for White-faced Plover in Thailand few years back.
 

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I'm afraid I have next to no pics of exotic lepidoptera, other than this beaut that decided to hang off a scope while we were looking for White-faced Plover in Thailand few years back.

Stonking is the word that comes to mind.

I saw one at the airport at St Just in the late 90's or early Noughties. Some birders who had been staying in the valleys and doing a bit of moth trapping, had caught one and on hearing that we were all fog bound at the airport, were good enough to bring it along and show it around.

Was it the erroneous Spotless Starling twitch?
 
Hi

A few from the Pyrenees
 

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1 Two-tailed Pasha
2 Copper Sp?
3 Blue sp
4 Heath sp?
5 Palm Borer

Lovely shots, no book to hand, care to fill in the gaps?
 
Hi Andy


Two-tailed Pasha Charaxes jasius Aude
Copper Large Lycaena dispar Pays Basque
Blue Baton Pseudophilotes baton Aude
Heath Pearly Coenonympha arcania Aude
Palm Moth Paysandisia archon Aude

I will load a few more after watching Dads Army:-O France ( I have a brilliant VPN)

Steve
 
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Hi Andy


Two-tailed Pasha Charaxes jasius Aude
Copper Large Lycaena dispar Pays Basque
Blue Baton Pseudophilotes baton Aude
Heath Pearly Coenonympha arcania Aude
Palm Moth Paysandisia archon Aude

I will load a few more after watching Dads Army:-O France ( I have a brilliant VPN)

Steve

Excellent,
thanks.

Dad's Army, original or remake?
 
Dads Army just as the UK watches it but for me via internet
The BBC Dads Army drama tonight was brilliant 1968 I was just 14 years old Dad was one of them not in the series but later in real life surviving Africa

A few Whites here
 

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Here's a couple from my own garden in the middle of England just to show that you never know what you might get - OK, they're 10 years apart but think lucky and you'll be lucky.

Camberwell Beauty was attracted to a bucket of potato peelings which were ready to be taken to the compost heap at the top of the garden and the Convolvulus Hawkmoth was in the greenhouse which had lots of Nicotiana plants nearby
 

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Here's a couple from my own garden in the middle of England just to show that you never know what you might get - OK, they're 10 years apart but think lucky and you'll be lucky.

Camberwell Beauty was attracted to a bucket of potato peelings which were ready to be taken to the compost heap at the top of the garden and the Convolvulus Hawkmoth was in the greenhouse which had lots of Nicotiana plants nearby

Incredible!
 
Dads Army just as the UK watches it but for me via internet
The BBC Dads Army drama tonight was brilliant 1968 I was just 14 years old Dad was one of them not in the series but later in real life surviving Africa

A few Whites here

1 Bath White
2 Black-veined White
3-4 More Bath whites or different species?
4 One of the African or Asian Orange-tips?
 
Ten out of ten... now that's what we like!

Is that Eastern Death's Head Hawk-moth as seen on the cinema advert for Silence of the Lambs? To me it doesn't quite look like our European one, colours are off.

Cheers

John

I am told that there could be considerable variations in the wing design...

Jp
 
I am told that there could be considerable variations in the wing design...

Jp

Thank you. I'd reached that conclusion looking at James's photo which was taken in Thailand but looks to me just like the ones I've seen here in UK!

Edit: One of which, on Scilly in 2011, I have now found. The background is the sports bag belonging to the finder or rather trapper, whose name I unfortunately didn't record.

John
 

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1 Bath White
2 Black-veined White
3-4 More Bath whites or different species?
4 One of the African or Asian Orange-tips?

1 White Bath Pontia daplidice Pays Basque
2 White Black veined Aporia crataegi Pays Basque
3 White Mountain Dappled Euchloe simplonia Pays Basque
4 Provence orange tip Anthocharis euphenoides Aude
 
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