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| Lunar Marbled Brown. Drymonia ruficornis. Notodontidae. West Wickham Common, 15 April 2015 |
Here are a few frontal shots of moths, which can be very characterful. This Lunar Marbled Brown is the same moth I showed a few posts ago, from the West Wickham Common light trap.
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| Marbled Brown, Drymonia dodonaea. Notodontidae. West Wickham Common, 15 April 2015 |
And here is a close relative, a Marbled Brown, from the same trap a month later. And from the same place and time:
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| Pale Tussock, Calliteara pudibunda. Lymantriidae. West Wickham Common, 15 April 2015 |
A Pale Tussock, a lovely furry creature. And one which is named after its appearance from this angle ...
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| Spectacle, Abrostola tripartita. Noctuidae. West Wickham Common, 15 April 2015 |
A Spectacle. Quite a few moths have a tuft of scales just behind the head, as you can see from the previous photos, but on this creature it is rather larger than average. And then there are the false eyes ...
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ReplyDeleteAre these beauties about 2" wide, if the grid for the lunar is 5mm? They look as if they had distinct characters.
ReplyDeleteLess than that, not much more than an inch across. The angle the Lunar Marbled Brown is standing at gives a false impression. The Marbled Brown below id the same size as the Lunar. The Pale Tussock is about the same width, but longer. The Spectacle is the smallest of this bunch.
ReplyDeleteYes, I have always thought that these views are very characterful, and I have used that word about them in the past.