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23-09-2009, 02:31 PM
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| | | Hairy dark brown/orange and I can't identify it.
Just inland from the S. Devon Coast Path. Slightly smaller and thinner than a Knotgrass which I photographed close by. 
One of those days where I only took 20 keepable photos but ended up with 18 queeries!
Rather distinctive but can't find this one in my books and don't really know which direction to look for more information.
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23-09-2009, 03:21 PM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: North Yorkshire
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| | | Re: Hairy dark brown/orange and I can't identify it.
Looks like a Fox Moth. |
23-09-2009, 04:47 PM
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| | | Re: Hairy dark brown/orange and I can't identify it.
Oak Eggar by the looks of it. |
23-09-2009, 05:10 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Grantham, Lincolnshire
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| | | Re: Hairy dark brown/orange and I can't identify it.
Fox for me
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24-09-2009, 09:01 AM
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| | | Re: Hairy dark brown/orange and I can't identify it.
Fox moths will be around 50mm this time of year (they overwinter as fully grown larva); Geoffs description of the size suits Oak Eggar - they overwinter as part-grown larva.
The Fox Moth is also less variables - the younger larva have distinctive rings of orange around the body, the older larva having a two-toned orange and black colouration, Oak Eggars have a greyish-bluish colour to them and the orange is more intense and not in perfect rings round the body.
Compare this: http://www.ukleps.org/Pregeo/1637s.jpg with this: http://www.ukleps.org/Pregeo/1638s.jpg |
24-09-2009, 09:15 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Grantham, Lincolnshire
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| | | Re: Hairy dark brown/orange and I can't identify it.
Funny  I have bred Oak Eggar and still can't tell.  
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24-09-2009, 07:36 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: S. Devon
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| | | Re: Hairy dark brown/orange and I can't identify it.
That ukleps site looks very interesting. Another one added to my list of ID bookmarked sites.
Bearing in mind that my specimen is all hunched up and is a fresh specimen, compared with a selection of images which I have discovered and are of mostly stretched out spring caterpillars; the Oak Eggar looks the most likely.
So thanks everyone for another leg up on the learning curve. |
25-09-2009, 08:31 PM
| | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: North Yorkshire
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| | | Re: Hairy dark brown/orange and I can't identify it.
I still think its a fox moth . |
25-09-2009, 08:35 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
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| | | Re: Hairy dark brown/orange and I can't identify it.
Sorry DH, but it doesn't look like a Fox Moth to me. Certainly looks more like an Oak Eggar, as per pics on UKLeps. Fox tends to have a skirt of hair down the side, and not such long hair on top IMHO. Not that I'm an expert.  |
25-09-2009, 08:39 PM
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| | | Re: Hairy dark brown/orange and I can't identify it.
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