Hi all, i have added 4 photos to my SE Sutherland album of 4 moths for confirmation or otherwise please, White-line Dart, Grey Mountain Carpet, July Highflyer...
Hi Mark I always like a challenge, so I have been out on the Berwickshire coast checking known Thyme locations and did manage to find just a few flowers: ...
Thanks to everybody for their input of late-flowering thyme. Yes it is possible to find the occasional plant here and there with a couple of flowers, but how...
Reently my sugar has been abnormally unproductive, when autumn is usually a good time of year for it. However, there is a very dead roe deer lying a few yards...
I've put 2 photos in my Aberlady Bay album. I'd be much obliged if anyone could help with the ID. I think macro1, with such a curved forewing, must be Barred...
What some people will do to avoid holding a barbecue! ... From: roy589777 To: ScottishMoths@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 1:58 PM Subject:...
Hi Roy It really is interesting that they can keep a toehold in Scotland. Is there any chance at all that they switch to another food when the thyme goes over...
Dear Roy, Well, I am blown. I did think that second brood Golden-rod Pugs were smaller, which was the puzzle, and why I uploaded the image, but it never ...
Hi Philip, Certainly Thyme Pug is very closely associated with thyme in Britain. It isn't found where thyme is absent, but according to Tom Prescott it's only...
There was plenty Thyme in flower on the hills behind Glenshee on Monday. I should think any larvae would have been blown to Denmark by now, though. Duncan...
Hi there Here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ScottishMoths/photos/album/660425506/pic/list The first 2 photographs. This is my first Marbled Carpet (assuming...
Hi Roy Thanks so much. I had a look at a lot of images online and couldn't find another CMC that matched but thought it safest to go with the underside. best...
Hi All, Help wanted with a couple of nice micros caught the other night(the bird dropping book not yet received). Perhaps one is a Cochylis species (thought...
Hi folks I consistently trapped Flame Shoulder (often many of them) up until the last tatty looking individual at the end of July. Nothing in August. Then a...
Hi Bob Your moths are Eupoecilia angustana (was this taken on moorland). The Epiblema is E. scutulana (when was this caught). You say the bird-dropping book...
Hi Martin Yes, I caught one at Torrance yesterday so there does seem to be a partial second generation. Always keep in mind though that most records of the...
Whoops, Sorry Jon. I had an splurge on books recently and thought I'd ordered this (and I now realise something else too) which not the case. I will endeavour...
Someone called Bob from Stirling has just ordered............... ;-) A late date for E. scutulana but I have noted them well into September before (E. cirsiana...
Thanks John I'll keep my eyes peeled for a Radford's! Martin ... partial second generation. Always keep in mind though that most records of the very rare...
Hi all, is this latest photo in 'Tighnabruaich moths' a worn Dark Brocade or Cabbage Moth? I'm leaning towards the former, but I might be completely on the...
