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Harry Rutherford
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I don’t suppose anyone has any idea how to ID this empty moth pupa? Found in a crevice of a mature oak trunk. The hairy bits look somewhat distinctive but I wouldn’t know where to start. @mothiduk.bsky.social?
a macro photo of an empty moth cocoon in the crevice of an old oak trunk. An empty moth cocoon in my hand. It is dark brown but has tufts of straw coloured bristly hair along the sides. It is split open at one end where the moth emerged. An empty moth cocoon in my hand, from a different angle. It is dark brown but with tufts of straw coloured bristly hair.
July 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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I doubled my previous record count of Elephant Hawkmoth last night! (i.e. there were two)

Batrachedra pinicolella/confusella was NFG but I fumbled the process of getting it into a pot. Bad news for my garden list, good news for that individual moth, I guess.
#TeamMoth #moths #VC17 #SouthLondon
An Elephant Hawk-moth on the seedhead of an ornamental poppy. The moth is all pointy angles and vibrant pink; the seedhead is almost circular and pale blue-green. The picture is from the side and the moth is preparing to fly, so side of the body and underside of the wings are showing, with white legs contrasting against the pink body. It also has some details in a warm olive green.
June 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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A respectable moth night: I make it 76 of 32 species.
Brown Scallop was the best record, only my second.
Glamour provided by a couple of Hawkmoths, Elephant and Poplar, and Blue-bordered Carpet.
Mild further interest provided by a Dun-bar which is my earliest record by 11 days. Whoo.
#teammoth
A Brown Scallop moth. It's a murky brown moth spread flat against a wood surface with a faint wavy pattern on the wings and slight scalloped edge to the wing. The tip of the abdomen is fat and club shaped and raised up. Elephant Hawkmoth. A fuchsia pink and olive green moth shaped like a fighter jet. A Blue-bordered Carpet. A triangular moth with its wings flat against a cardboard egg box. It is white with a dark brown patch at the front, another on each wing, and a soft grey border at the rear of the wing that is "blue" like steel not blue like an Italian football jersey.
June 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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It's shaping up to be a good toad and frog harvest this year.
The edge of a pond, under the rim of some paving. It is dotted with froglets and toddlers, just about old enough to have lost their tails. There are at least 40 of them.
June 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM