Blue Bordered Carpet
July Highflyer
What a splendid hour or so we spent in Cunnery woods last night, Winston commented it was a little like been in one of those butterfly tropical green houses, with bright Brimstones / Light Emeralds,Poplar hawkmoth and Swallowtails wheeling round our heads as soon as we put the light on.It was so hectic we just let the moths fly around the light and tried to id them.Highlights included 3 Blue Bordered Carpet,Bee Moth,Straw Dot,Small fanfoot,Purple Clay,Clouded Border,Mottled Beauty,Common wave,Small Fan footed wave,Common Carpet and a Common Lustering (which we initially id as a dark July Highflyer).
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For me the highlight was 1922 Swallow-tailed Moth Ourapteryx sambucaria, and the green form of July High flyer which if you look carefully loos to have a setof eyebrows and a mustache on its green wings (well it does to me anyway!) :-)
looks like you had a cracking night,is there good numbers of alders in cunnery wood ? will have to get up there soon.Bri.
We could try on sat Night(tomorrow )if any one is up for it,I reckon if we gave it a few hours we would score a good haul.Dont know about weather tomorrow.????/
We're up for it.
Def up for sat nt.
OK will meet at Cunnery woods about 9.50,last night the moths were out by 10.00.
i will try and come along again
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