any ideas please, it's a small carpet (21mm) and looks awfully like a Mottled Grey to me, or is it a big Pug?
first at home
Garden Carpet 7
Scalloped Hazel 3
Brimstone 10
Pug spp 3
Marbled Minor 5
Dusky Brocade
Clouded Bordered Brindle 12
Silver Ground Carpet 4
Common Swift
Peppered Moth
Common Marbled Carpet
Silver Y
Heart and Dart
LUDDENDEN
Peach Blossom
Elephant Hawkmoth
Ghost Moth
Coxcomb Prominent
Small Square Spot
Ingrailed Clay
Silver Ground Carpet 3
Common Marbeled Carpet 2
Garden Carpet 2
Flame Carpet
Peach Blossom
Elephant Hawkmoth
Ghost Moth
Coxcomb Prominent
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yellow barred Brindle/Seraphintype
Is that the Small or the Elephant Hawkmoth.Just looking at colours of hindwing (pink) and white edging to the inner edge of wing ?
We are looking at page 82 of the Townsend and Waring softback . We are only asking , not disputing. We are only beginners.
Interesting one that Martyn,its got the very small hindwings of seraphim group,seems small for e tooth stripe,markings are a bit vague,but looks like theres a broadish band nr base of wing, suggesting seraphim ! small seraphim seems to be more marked in pics of this species ?
thanks chaps, had me fooled that one
yes it's Small Elephant Mike
Martyn
I would say Elephant Hawkmoth (elpenor).
Contrast it with Brian's porcellus further up the page.
your right chaps, it was an undersize Elephant Hawkmoth, well done Mike and Kath for picking that out
Martyn
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