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Anyone help with moth identification?
Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:40:58 +0100
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~~Linda~~...
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Found this moth lurking in the greenhouse earlier and haven't been able to
find out what it is yet by searching the web. Anyone got any idea?
Tickettyboo...
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yep ... its a Linda-eating great hairy one!
Watch out..its behind ... oops! too late, I kinda liked her too
~~Linda~~...
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Lol, shall I post it up to holiday with you? Actually I caught it in a bug
pot (the one the 'kids' have in the cupboard, which these days is mostly
used for catching spiders) so now I have to decide where to release it.
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Rabbit...
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Nope but it's pretty, I wish they were all as pretty :-)
~~Linda~~...
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I was surprised how big it was and just how noisy it's wings were when it
flew around. I have to admit I ducked a couple of times and ran out of the
greenhouse when it nearly landed on my head!
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BunnyHare...
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I see people have suggested what it might be.
It's pretty though, isn't it?
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And yes, I apologise for the huge picture, I have been trying to upload
another one but having bigtime problem ftp'ing to my webspace :-( so have
given up and stuck with this one.
noreen...
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That is a fancy one Linda !! but no I wouldn't have a clue sorry ;-)))
~~Linda~~...
John in Cornwall...
ned...
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This moth is, without a doubt an Adhemarius blanchadorum.
Best regards
John
~~Linda~~...
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Ok you've got me on that one!
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It was rather pretty. I kept it in the greenhouse until it stopped raining,
ned...
ned...
lol then let it go out in the lane :o)
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MCC...
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Methinks it is an Elephant Hawk Moth.
~~Linda~~...
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Lol, so it is. Doh, I searched for 'green moth' green and red moth' in
images and it didn't come up. I have seen the caterpillars before, they're
pretty huge too, aren't they but have never seen the actual moth before.
Er, I hope I'm not going to find the entire contents of my greenhouse eaten
one day soon!
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I hope it isn't as big as that in real life
~~Linda~~...
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Oh don't... I've had nothing but problems with this computer in the past
week or so, what with that and my daughters laptop (see my plea for some
brain power in pcnews!) I'm going mad here. I really do NOT need all this
hassle right now :-(
(I don't mean from you Mike, I mean life in general!)
MCC...
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According to my book, it lives on bedstaws and willowherb, but its
MCC...
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bedstraws even, but you knew that I'm sure ;-)
~~Linda~~...
~~Linda~~...
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erm... I did web-search it but got "Your search - Adhemarius blanchadorum - did
not match any documents"
Tried a few alternative spellings... not come up with anything so far, any
pmj...
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Try searching the web again, but with this?...
Adhemarius blanchardorum
Notice the "r" (after the "blancha") in "blanchardorum"
~~Linda~~...
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Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :-)
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I also got no Results at all, when I tried John's Version of it
in web-search, but then took off the "blanchadorum" bit & scanned down
through a few of the Results & saw the word "blanchardorum" on some
of them. So I then did a Search using those words...
That gives (at the moment, until these Posts get Indexed by web-search)
about 27 results (out of a total of about 62 Pages)
& if you take off the Language Restrictions (&hl=en&lr=lang_en),
from that URL...
you then get about 39 Results out of about 136 Pages
~~Linda~~...
ned...
ned...
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R.... said as Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Yes, so it does... only I'm pretty sure
that the one I found wasn't one of those anyway. Hey ho, thanks for
looking... I had a meeting last night, so didn't have time to try too many
combinations and obviously hadn't hit the right one!
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clues? :-))
ned...
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Try Deilephila elpenor.
:-)
~~Linda~~...
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Yes well that is what I saw, definitely. I'm still a bit confused though by
John's 'Adhemarius blanchadorum', I've tried several different letters but
can't come up with anything that web-search recognises. Is it the same thing?
~~Linda~~...
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Yep... after I'd written that post! lol
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I just had a Hummingbird Hawkmoth in the garden today.
And a Privet Hawkmoth, the other night.
Definitely 'big moth month'.
:-))
~~Linda~~...
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Just searched the web for images for Hummingbird Hawkmoth... they're pretty impressive!
I 'have' seen a privet hawkmoth... not that we have any privet but there
was one on the lilac tree next door and my neighbour called us to look and
I found that on web-search. The standard cry around here if anyone wants to
know anything, is "Mum... go web-search!" lol
MCC...
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~~Linda~~ he has spelt it wrongly - there should be an 'r' between blancha
and dorum!
Try this page -
But I don't think that beastie is found in UK.
~~Linda~~...
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Yep, got it now, thanks to pmj and web-search ;-)
It would have to be a long way off the beaten track, wouldn't it?!
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Graham...
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Ned, I've just spotted your site url, most interesting :-)
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Hehe, of course... but it's ok, we've got a posh mattress anyway :o)
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caterpillars also enjoy fuchsias - you have been warned
Hope you get you and your daughter's computers sorted. Sadly I have nothing
to contribute. Moths I can do, computers no!
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shaz...
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You beat me to it.
http://www.uksafari.com/elephanthm.htm
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