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Thread Author: bathtub tom	Replies: 16

New Mon 11 Jul 16 12:55   Any budding lepidopterist care to identify this - bathtub tom

Found it on my drive: tinyurl.com/zrmxq4z Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 11 Jul 16 13:07   Any budding lepidopterist care to identify this - legacylad

My ex MiL morphed from something like that Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 11 Jul 16 13:08   Any budding lepidopterist care to identify this - smokie

Don't think it's a lepid Ted. They are bigger with spots which they can't change :-) Reply to this message | Report message       2

New Mon 11 Jul 16 13:57   Any budding lepidopterist care to identify this - madf

Is it the red one with wheels or the green one? Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 11 Jul 16 14:19   Any budding lepidopterist care to identify this - Ted

It's a tape measure....being yellow, it's probably a Stanley. Easy ! Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 11 Jul 16 15:03   Any budding lepidopterist care to identify this - John Boy

I think it's a Privet Hawk Moth. It needs to spread it's wings for you to be sure. There's one on this page: ukmoths.org.uk/species/sphinx-ligustri/ Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 11 Jul 16 15:43   Any budding lepidopterist care to identify this - bathtub tom

Thurpithed no-oneth thaid itth enormoth. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 11 Jul 16 17:09   Any budding lepidopterist care to identify this - John Boy

It's quite large, isn't it? Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 11 Jul 16 17:46   Any budding lepidopterist care to identify this - Armel Coussine

There are a lot of small moths here. Last night there was a very beautiful smallish silvery one on the wall two feet from my bed. It wouldn't be shooed away so I left it there. It's gone today, but I hope I will see it again. Our dragonflies, when we get them, are enormous, so big that you can hear their wings clattering. You wouldn't want to be a Vietcong ladybird with choppers like that filling the skies... Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 11 Jul 16 17:48   Any budding lepidopterist care to identify this - tyrednemotional

Desmodus rotundus? ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Jul 16 15:23   Any budding lepidopterist care to identify this - bathtub tom

Found this one on the wheely bin. Any clues? tinyurl.com/jnq768q Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Jul 16 15:54   Any budding lepidopterist care to identify this - Ted

Take your pick.... tinyurl.com/j6s265h Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Jul 16 16:02   Any budding lepidopterist care to identify this - John Boy

tinyurl.com/hp8sd5j Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Jul 16 17:54   Any budding lepidopterist care to identify this - bathtub tom

Thanks, a Leopard Moth (Zeuzera pyrina) it is then: A scarce species that is widely distributed throughout Derbyshire This one was in Bedfordshire! Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Jul 16 18:56   Any budding lepidopterist care to identify this - John Boy

I don't think he's implying that Derbyshire is the only county where you'll find one. It just happens that he's based there. Other websites suggest the location as follows - "Distributed over the southern half of England and South Wales, associated with woodland, gardens and orchards". Sadly, I've never seen one. If you're interested in nature photography, his website and Flickr page are both well worth a look. He uses a rather expensive digital SLR, which is full-frame, meaning that he can change the aperture size to throw the background out of focus. That's the facility I've really missed since changing from film to digital. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Jul 16 19:02   Any budding lepidopterist care to identify this - Crankcase

I bought an uprated funky lens for my digital and it produces jolly good bokeh, but if you want to do it manually it's easy enough with software afterwards. Or Mr Google gives some ideas for obtaining it pretty well even with a point and shoot, if that's any use, John Boy. Can be done. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Jul 16 21:33   Any budding lepidopterist care to identify this - John Boy

Yes, I'm aware of those options, Crankcase, but they just don't do it for me. I preferred having to struggle to get a large depth of field with film, as opposed to struggling not to with digital. I must be a luddite in this respect. Reply to this message | Report message