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Liz Heard
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Posted: 02 Aug 2014 at 3:41pm |
will
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Hi Ben
sounds like a nice kitchen! it looks like a southern hawker to me; I was at the London Wetland Centre yesterday and took a photo of this female egg laying. I never realised how spiky the 'can-opener' ovipositor is - perhaps that's why they were known as 'horse stingers' in olden times? I'm useless on moths, apart from hawk moths I am in the dark with them, as it were - sorry about that! |
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natrix5
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Hi Liz
Yes first is Southern Hawker followed by a Migrant Hawker. Your moths are Swallow-tailed Moth followed by Small Scallop.
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Suzy
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Swallowtail moth?
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GemmaJF
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Just an admin post to state that natrix5's post was not visible until I approved this morning, so Suzy would not have seen it when she posted.
Also, Ben, please clean your nails, they are worse than my husbands! |
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will
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Nice one natrix5, thanks for adding to my inadequate answer!
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Liz Heard
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Thanks Will, Suzy and Natrix for the IDs, although the 1st 2 pics are of the same dragonfly.
It seems as soon as i clean my nails they get dirty again. That's what you get for constantly grubbing out wildlife in the mud. |
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will
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I'll stick with southern hawker, then - immature male. But I could well be wrong, Ben!
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arvensis
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Yep, a Swallowtail moth, there's other moths that have the same common name as Butterflies, Brimstone is one. I have my mothbox out tonight, it will be interesting what turns up.
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Liz Heard
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