Yesterday we posted this picture with a request for an ID . This was originally posted by Paul Batty to members of the increasingly excellent Entomological Livestock Group.Thank you to everyone who correctly identified this moth as a Pink barred Sallow (Xanthia togata). I think that one of the things that is most endearing about the study of British moths is that they have such beautifully romantic names...
British moths have lovely names because they were mostly named by Victorian naturalists and the like. If you look at common names for insects in the USA, you'll find a very different picture emerging; most of these insects were named by agriculturalists who wanted rid of them as pests, so terms like "The greasy cutworm" and so on are much more common.
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