Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Moth ID please
Hi, this is my first post on this site. I had a Veneer of some sort yesterday, on the wall by our door, it's a bit of a gathering place for moths. I thought it was a Garden Grass Veneer Chrysoteuchia culmella at first. It does not have the grey/silver band near the tip of it's wings. I've looked thought Manley's 2nd edition and on the net. I'm stumped. Could anyone help please? Thank you.
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Hi Gordon , great to hear from you ,,,it could be Agriphila straminella,,,?? have you got a side on photo.??
Hi Andy, thank you. I'm sorry, that is the best of the six shots I took. It was half way up the wall. I only got the photos by holding the camera above my head, at arms length and using the rotating screen. The sun was in my eyes, it being 7:30 am. I wasn't sure they were in focus even. Sorry about that.
By the way. I've had the "normal" Willow Beauty and a couple of days later, the pale form of it. There seem to be quite a few pale ones about just now.
Sorry, I forgot to add that I did consider Agriphila straminella, but all the images I saw of it seemed very pale and erm.. smooth, rather then the scaly texture on my sample. Mind you, 7 times out of 10, mine look nothing like any in the books or websites, even allowing variable forms. No wonder I'm confused.
Hi Gordon, a tricky one that from that angle - have you thought about buying selfie-stick :-)
A selfi-stick, me! I laughed when I read that Charlie. You've seen how much I shake sometimes, it would look as if I was in an earthquake, it was hard enough to keep it steady without an 18 inch to two foot long tube on the end of my hand. Hehehehe
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