I have posted photos of the two moths in question below (heavily cropped). The photos are even worse than usual I am afraid. The moths were quite lively when I got them out of the fridge so I quickly took a few flash photos in kitchen and when I took them outside to try and get a better photo they both escaped within seconds!
Possible Pale Mottled Willow- Edit - thanks to Dean for confirming these as probable Pale Mottled Willows
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Is this another Pale Mottled Willow or a completely different species?
Am beginning to wonder if my moth id skills are ever going to improve!!
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Summary of Moth Trapping - Sunday, 10th October 2010
7.00 p.m. until dawn
Minimum Temperature 10.1 degrees centigrade
Actinic 15w Skinner Trap
2 x Large Yellow Underwings
1 x Shuttle-shaped Dart
Pale Mottled Willow? Edit 2 x Pale Mottled Willow
Garden Update
Bird-wise the garden is very quiet at the moment - just the usual visits from wood and feral pigeons, blackbirds, house sparrows, dunnocks, blue, great and coal tits, robins, greenfinches and goldfinchs, magpies, carrion crows and great spotted woodpeckers. I haven't seen any butterflies for a few weeks although there was a common carder bee taking nectar from the verbena bonariensis last week.
I can never decide whether autumn or spring is my favourite season but I really do love the autumn "tints" in the trees. Below are a few photos below of autumn leaves in the garden which I took at the weekend.
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2 comments:
I can`t see the moths being anything else but PMW`s, Caroline. I have been known to be wrong before though.
Thanks so much Dean for coming to the rescue again. Sorry the photos weren't better to help with the id!
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