White ermine moth ( Spilosoma lubricipeda)
Dear Readers, there are some splendid results from this week’s quiz, with Fran and Bobby Freelove, Leo Smith and OKthislooksbad all getting a handsome 15 out of 15, and with Alittlebitoutoffocus getting a respectable 11 out of 15. Welcome to our first-time posters, and thank you for taking part.
Dear Readers, let’s see how we got on with this little challenge. The answers are below. I hope you had fun! Deciding which moths to include certainly had me thinking about the variety of forms and habits of this fascinating group of insects. I could easily have found another fifteen to include, so sorry if I missed your favourites this time. And I managed to resist the urge to include a clothes moth.
1)h) White plume moth (Pterophorus pentadactyla)
2)a) Jersey tiger (Euplagia quadripunctaria)
3)k) Angle shades (Phlogophora meticulosa)
4)j) Box tree moth (Cydalima perspectalis)
5)f) Hummingbird hawk moth (Macroglossum stellatarum)
6)d) Buff tip (Phalera bucephala)
7)g) Cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae)
8)c) Mint moth (Pyrausta aurata)
9)o) Six-spot burnet (Zygaena filipendulae)
10)i) Blood vein (Timandra comae)
11)e) Red underwing ( Catocala nupta)
12)n) Magpie moth (Abraxas grossulariata)
13)b) Brimstone (Opisthograptis luteolata)
14)m) Elephant hawk moth (Deilephila elpenor)
15)l) Large emerald (Geometra papilionaria)
Photo Credits
Photo One by user B. Schoenmakers at waarneming.nl, a source of nature observations in the Netherlands. / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)
Photo Two by AJC1 from UK / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)
Photo Three by Rob Mitchell / CC0
Photo Four by Rob Mitchell / CC0
Photo Five by Yusuf Akgul / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
Photo Six by nick goodrum from Catfield in Norfolk, United Kingdom / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)
Photo Seven by Nzhymenoptera / CC0
Photo Eight by Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)
Photo Nine by By Lairich Rig, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13619082
Photo Ten by nick goodrum from Catfield in Norfolk, United Kingdom / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)
Photo Eleven by Rob Mitchell / CC0
Photo Twelve by Rob Mitchell / CC0
Photo Thirteen by Patrick Clement from West Midlands, England / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)
Photo Fourteen by nick goodrum from Catfield in Norfolk, United Kingdom / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)
Photo Fifteen by nick goodrum from Catfield in Norfolk, United Kingdom / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)
With hindsight I realise some of my guesses would have been correct – I would nonetheless have been at the bottom of your class! They have interesting names.
Thanks again for setting this quiz. It was certainly a challenge (for me anyway!)
Glad you enjoyed it, MIke! Be interested in your thoughts on the Foehn wind if you get it in your part of Switzerland (see today’s post 🙂 )
I didn’t even consider entering this one as I knew I only knew about two of them – I love moths but see far too few of them!
You know, now that you’ve read the post you’ll probably start seeing moths everywhere – every time I do a post I start to see whatever I’ve written about in abundance.
We’re lucky to see several of these on our walks and quite a few in the gardens. We particularly like the White Plume moth, and only the day before your quiz we were photographing the Buff Tip caterpillar. We love moths there are so many varied colours and patterns, one we were pleased to be able to photograph was the Mother Shipton moth, it has the pattern of her face on it’s wings.
I love moths – just disturbed a garden tiger in the garden, the flash of orange from its underwings gave me quite a shock, which I guess is what’s meant to happen. I also love plume moths, such strange little creatures!