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18-08-2008, 01:01 PM
|  | Wild Member | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: St Helens
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| | | Butterflies & moth for ID pretty please!
Could sks help me with ID's for these please (sorry about the quality of the moth photo!)    
I'll also throw in a photo of Peacock Butterfly's - Inachis io because I like the photo!  |
18-08-2008, 03:01 PM
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| | | Re: Butterflies & moth for ID pretty please!
Hi SilverW0lf - I think your Moth is a Straw Dot - Rivula sericealis
And butterfly number 3 is a Speckled Wood - Pararge aegeria |
18-08-2008, 03:28 PM
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| | | Re: Butterflies & moth for ID pretty please!
The other butterfly is a Common Blue (both pictures), 2. shows a male. |
18-08-2008, 03:53 PM
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| | | Re: Butterflies & moth for ID pretty please!
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Originally Posted by djackso  The other butterfly is a Common Blue (both pictures), 2. shows a male. | I can't believe I never noticed the blue on the female until you said that, I would never have guessed they were the same species!
Cheers for the help djackso & goosey |
19-08-2008, 02:05 AM
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| | | Re: Butterflies & moth for ID pretty please!
Number 4 is a Straw dot moth.
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20-08-2008, 02:41 PM
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| | | Re: Butterflies & moth for ID pretty please!
Thanks for the confirmation Naturegirl... Quote: |
Originally Posted by UKMoths Relatively common in the southern half of Britain, and becoming gradually scarcer further north, this moth is also a suspected immigrant. | Would St Helens be classed as north are are they talking more Cumbria & Scotland? | | |
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