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Still feeling pleased with myself to win this and wondering whether they'll run the competition in 2024
06:02 AM - Mar 26, 2024
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Hadn't realised this ha created a green corona until I viewed on a different monitor...I edited it to mask that
08:59 AM - Oct 30, 2023
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In response to Jo Brodie.
They're both Polygonia, superficially very similar. Like I say QM has white dot next to its "comma", makes it look like a question mark...
10:40 AM - Jul 21, 2023
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As soon as I'd submitted my data, a couple of Red Admiral turned up and a Gatekeeper!
10:48 AM - Jul 18, 2023
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It's possible the female is laying
02:27 PM - Jul 13, 2023
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Yep, that's what I was taught when I did my lifeguard training many years ago. Main pool problem is people slipping and banging their heads when not in the water and people with health problems and age having heart attacks
02:06 PM - Jul 01, 2023
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Raconteurs are those mammals that look like their wearing a burglar's mask and riffle through the rubbish in the garden, aren't they? Hahahaah
05:59 PM - Jun 27, 2023
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Fascinating lifecycle and lifestyle. The caterpillars eat wood and can spend two or three years under the bark of a tree. The adults have no working mouthparts and are to all intents and purposes spotty, flying sex machines...

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06:24 AM - Jun 20, 2023
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Indeed, but there are other examples of that where the originators of the names decided they were only looking at something as a single entity on one observed wing, say...
08:40 AM - Jun 06, 2023
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Have updated the post again
01:09 PM - Jun 05, 2023
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Yes. The original researcher perched moths on vertical posts whereas this species tends to roost on the underside of leaves, so that was skewing the results.
10:27 AM - Jun 05, 2023
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Yes...I messed up...I forgot I'd updated the original post some time ago after new work came to light. Originally, the first experiments were debunked as they were not done scientifically, but subsequent ones corroborated the hypothesis nevertheless. I was too keen to be surprising #hoistOwnPetard
07:57 AM - Jun 05, 2023
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Hah, love it!
03:44 PM - May 28, 2023
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Thank you!
01:01 PM - May 26, 2023
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Even more beautiful in real life, there were several dozen on the patch although it's a rather rare species, very localised to chalky places
06:10 AM - May 26, 2023
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Definitely!
01:09 PM - May 25, 2023
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Yes, definitely the fastest bird and with perhaps the exception of that really fast shrimp, I think it's the fast animal
05:09 AM - May 25, 2023
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I see your 120mph Sprawk and raise you a 200mph Peregrine ;-)
04:53 PM - May 24, 2023
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In response to Jo Brodie.
But, actually, you do have a bit of a point, some moths, like the Poplar Hawk-moth are disguised as leaves and prefer to be perched innocuously during the day and will crawl on your finger and sit quietly.
03:11 AM - May 24, 2023
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Hahah, butterflies will land on you to drink your sweat! The male Emperor moth, I'd say, is far more skittish than any butterfly we have here, they're a nightmare to net. Sometimes they settle if you have got some of the pheromone lure on you.
03:10 AM - May 24, 2023
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Oh, go on then, here's the Adonis Blue!
05:48 PM - May 23, 2023
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It's a male Emperor moth, standard joke photo among moth-ers, done it several times before, hahah. It was in the garden, I gently picked it up and put it on my nose, took the selfie...
01:11 PM - May 23, 2023
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Hah, they are legs, yes. It's playing dead. It flew off seconds later.
04:34 AM - May 06, 2023
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So sorry for your loss. It's unbearable.
06:34 AM - Apr 28, 2023
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Niiiice
03:55 AM - Apr 19, 2023
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Nice one. Archive photo I presume...
11:14 AM - Apr 15, 2023
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In response to Jo Brodie.
Funnily enough there are other moths with names containing the word "ermine"
03:22 AM - Apr 13, 2023
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Hard to know whether it was the cold and wet or the fact that I used a different lamp last night
08:57 AM - Apr 11, 2023
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07:24 AM - Apr 10, 2023
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The little circles on each wing you mean?

Technically the Orbicular stigmata
07:07 AM - Apr 10, 2023
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