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Sunday, June 21, 2009

...AND WHAT ARE THESE?

We had a "herd" of these in our garden yesterday - we live on the fens near Lincoln. Please could somebody tell us what they are as they are not in our book.

Thanks. Rosie
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Anonymous said...

These are longhorn moths, family Adelidae, one of the moth families which has day-active species in it.

The reason you won't easily be able to find pictures of them in books on moths is twofold; firstly as "micromoths" most books don't cover them, being concerned only with the larger moths, and secondly entomology books have a standard layout for insects which for moths is with the wings pinned in a stretched-out position.

In life, the moths never rest like this and the wings-outstretched pose is only ever seen in flying moths, and only then if you're pretty handy with a camera.

This sort of life to dead specimen is quite common in entomology; many tropical species have a shimmer or sheen in life which fades rapidly when the insect dies, and dung beetles have antennae that in life have spread tips opened out like a fan, which in death always close up into a lump.

10:10 PM
Unknown said...

These look like the longhorn moth Nemophora degeerella. Incidentally, there is a good internet site for identifying moths at ukmoths.org.uk

6:47 PM

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