Friday, July 20, 2012

Moths & Butterflies – June 2012

A selection of moths & butterflies caught in the garden and seen out and about locally during June.

Nettletap

Nettle-Tap (Anthophila fabriciana)

6-spot-burnet

Six-spot Burnet Moth (Zygaena filipendulae)

51-six-spot-burnet-caterpillar

Six-spot Burnet caterpillar (Zygaena filipendulae)

Aethes-Cnicana

Aethes cnicana

Beautiful-Golden-Y

Beautiful Golden Y (Autographa pulchrina)

Beautiful-Golden-Y-2

Beautiful Golden Y (Autographa pulchrina)

Blastobasis-lacticolella

Blastobasis-lacticolella

Bright-Line-Brown-eye

Bright-line Brown-eye Lacanobia oleracea

brimstone

Brimstone Moth (Opisthograptis luteolata)

celypha-lacunana

Celypha lacunana

Chrysoteuchia-culmella (2)

Garden Grass-Veneer (Chrysoteuchia culmella)

cinnabar (2)

The Cinnabar Tyria jacobaeae

common-blue (2)

Common Blue Butterfly (Polyommatus icarus)

common-blue

Common Blue Butterfly (Polyommatus icarus)

Common-Bright-Incurvaria-oehlmanniella

Common-Bright-Incurvaria-oehlmanniella

Diamond-back

Diamond-back Moth (Plutella xylostella)

Diamond-back-2

Diamond-back Moth (Plutella xylostella)

Dusky brocade

Dusky Brocade (Apamea remissa)

epiblema

Epiblema sp

epiblema-sp

Epiblema sp

epiblems-sp

Epiblema sp

heart-and-dart-1

Heart & Dart (Agrotis exclamationis)

Incurvaria-2

Incurvaria oehlmanniella

large-yellow-underwing-1

Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba

lychnis (2)

Lychnis (Hadena bicruris)

Meadow-Brown

Meadow Brown Butterfly (Maniola jurtina)

micro-1

?

micro-2

?

micro-3

?

Nettle-tap

Nettle-Tap (Anthophila fabriciana)

painted-lady

Painted Lady ( Vanessa cardui ) we raised these from caterpillars

painted-lady-2

Painted Lady ( Vanessa cardui )

poplar-hawk-moth-1

Poplar Hawk-moth (Laothoe populi)

pos dichrorampha sp

pos Dichrorampha sp

pug (2)

 

pug

Common Pug (Eupithecia vulgata)

pug-2

 

red-admiral

Red Admiral ( Vanessa atalanta )

scops

Scopariinae

silver-ground-carpet (3)

Silver-ground Carpet (Xanthorhoe montanata)

small-copper

Small Copper ( Lycaena phlaeas )

small-dotted-buff

Small Dotted Buff Photedes minima

Small-Heath

Small Heath Butterfly ( Coenonympha pamphilus )

Straw-Dot

Straw Dot (Rivula sericealis)

tiny-micro

Coleophora sp

wall-butterfly

Wall Butterfly ( Lasiommata megera )

water-carpet

Water Carpet Lampropteryx suffumata

White-Ermine

White Ermine Spilosoma lubricipeda

7-Depressaria daucella caterpillar

Depressaria daucella caterpillar on Water Dropwort

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