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Thursday 7 June 2012

Some Menorcan Insects

A few pics of the insect life of Menorca. I'm afraid I don't know some of them so any help would be gratefully accepted
clouded yellow

wall brown
crimson Speckled moth



Small Copper

Bath White
This moth must have been 5 or 6 inches across. It loked as though it had been attacked by a bird
Blue of some sort

6 comments:

  1. Hi Rob - the small moth is a Crimson Speckled - much sought after migrant in the UK.

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  2. Hi Rob, Great variety of 'flutter' images.

    I reckon, or rather my book does!!, that the 2nd image is of a Wall Brown (lasiommata megera paramegera) and the 'Marbled White' is in fact a Bath White (pontia daplidice). Sorry no luck on the large moth and the small blue.

    Hope this helps...[;o)

    Please can you kill the word varification, 'cause it's a pain!! ta.

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    1. Cheers Trevor, What threw me with the Wall Brown is that it's a bit different to the one we get here.
      Word varification ? I wwould if it I knew what it was.

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    2. Hi Rob, Here's a link to a blog that has a tutorial explaining how to disable word varification...hope it helps!! (I just picked it up randomly from the web!)

      http://www.michelemademe.com/2012/02/how-to-disable-new-two-word.html

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  3. The large moth ought to be a Giant Peacock Moth - Europe's largest moth, but if it is it has lost all its scales, apart from the 'eyes', as the brown colouration looks nothing like the usual pretty markings.

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    1. Thanks Adam, I'll go for the Crimson Speckled, but you're right not sure about the Giant Peacock.

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