Wednesday 28 May 2014

Llyn Fach

Had a walk up to Llyn Fach yesterday and found a few moths on the way. First thing that greeted us on the side of the forestry track was this pair of mating puss moths:
Plenty of Micropterix calthella and common heaths plus some green-veined whites and a cinnabar moth along with two which I'd like confirmation of please - couldn't get a good photo of this as it was very flighty. Is it a spruce carpet?
And is this Platyptilia gonodactyla? Plenty of colt's-foot around but not sure I managed to get a good enough photo?
Any help appreciated.


2 comments:

  1. No problem with the Plume. The carpet may well be Spruce, but you can't rule out Grey Pine unless it's male and you look very closely at the antennae.

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