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ID Butterfly or moth
I've just seen a beautiful butterfly or moth on the Japanese anemone leaves.
I fear it's taking a hammering in this constant rain but don't know what it is or what if anything, I should do for it. It's wings are folded flat, not spread and it has very distinctive black and white stripes on each wing with a scarlet line down the middle of its 'back'. Anyone know what it is or if I should put it in a jar with some of whatever it eats? -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
ID Butterfly or moth
In article , Sacha writes I've just seen a beautiful butterfly or moth on the Japanese anemone leaves. I fear it's taking a hammering in this constant rain but don't know what it is or what if anything, I should do for it. It's wings are folded flat, not spread and it has very distinctive black and white stripes on each wing with a scarlet line down the middle of its 'back'. Anyone know what it is or if I should put it in a jar with some of whatever it eats? It's one of the tiger moths, probably Garden Tiger, which has bright orange hindwings, which hardly show when the upper pair are closed. There are one or two other tigers, including Wood, which have black-and-white striped upper wings. Have a look at: http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=2229 http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=1352 http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=4451 http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=4500 -- Malcolm |
ID Butterfly or moth
On 23/7/07 17:05, in article
, "Sacha" wrote: On 23/7/07 14:22, in article , "Malcolm" wrote: In article , Sacha writes I've just seen a beautiful butterfly or moth on the Japanese anemone leaves. I fear it's taking a hammering in this constant rain but don't know what it is or what if anything, I should do for it. It's wings are folded flat, not spread and it has very distinctive black and white stripes on each wing with a scarlet line down the middle of its 'back'. Anyone know what it is or if I should put it in a jar with some of whatever it eats? It's one of the tiger moths, probably Garden Tiger, which has bright orange hindwings, which hardly show when the upper pair are closed. There are one or two other tigers, including Wood, which have black-and-white striped upper wings. Have a look at: http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=2229 http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=1352 http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=4451 http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=4500 They're not quite it. With the wings folded, there is a white stripe right down the back with a touch of the scarlet showing. snip Sorry to answer myself but I think this is it, though I haven't seen the wings open: http://tinyurl.com/2onb4q This site says it's a protected species and is found in southern Europe, Asia Minor and the Middle East, so I'm not quite sure what it's doing in Devon! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
ID Butterfly or moth
Sacha, that's the 'Jersey Tiger Moth', although it is found throughout
much of Europe and beyond. It is quite frequently seen in S. Devon and is a fairly common visitor to my garden - more so than any other Tiger moth. |
ID Butterfly or moth
On 23/7/07 17:57, in article
, "Dave Poole" wrote: Sacha, that's the 'Jersey Tiger Moth', although it is found throughout much of Europe and beyond. It is quite frequently seen in S. Devon and is a fairly common visitor to my garden - more so than any other Tiger moth. Thanks, David. Bizarre though it sounds, I don't remember seeing it in Jersey. Perhaps I was just extremely unobservant or lived in the wrong part of the island. Anyhow 'my' moth took off this evening from the porch and will, I hope, survive this vile weather. Ray says he's seen them around here from time to time but I never have. Why does the French site describe it as protected, do you know? From all this, it doesn't sound rare or endangered, surely? -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
ID Butterfly or moth
On 24/7/07 07:11, in article , "Malcolm"
wrote: In article , Sacha writes On 23/7/07 17:57, in article , "Dave Poole" wrote: Sacha, that's the 'Jersey Tiger Moth', although it is found throughout much of Europe and beyond. It is quite frequently seen in S. Devon and is a fairly common visitor to my garden - more so than any other Tiger moth. Thanks, David. Bizarre though it sounds, I don't remember seeing it in Jersey. Perhaps I was just extremely unobservant or lived in the wrong part of the island. Anyhow 'my' moth took off this evening from the porch and will, I hope, survive this vile weather. Ray says he's seen them around here from time to time but I never have. Why does the French site describe it as protected, do you know? From all this, it doesn't sound rare or endangered, surely? Sacha Dave is right that's it's a Jersey Tiger. It's an occasional migrant from France which has successfully colonised the south coast of England. This comes from the Field Guide to Moths of Great Britain and Ireland (2003): "Resident and suspected immigrant. Well established and quite numerous along the south coast of Devon, from just west of Dartmouth to just east of Bridport, Dorset. Extends inland around Exeter and to the edge of Dartmoor, and there are also records from the Plymouth area. Single examples have been recorded from further east, from Portland, Dorset, to the Isle of Wight and Sussex. Some of these could have been immigrants, but the pattern of records suggests that colonies have been established ont he south coast of the Isle of Wight and near Rye, on the Sussex coast. Widespread and abundant in the Channel Islands." Definitely very unobservant of me - or a bad memory! Perhaps with encroaching age I'm taking more time to stand and stare! It's such a beautiful thing so I hope our visitor survived. We're very close to the edge of Dartmoor, so that would account for it. We get hummmingbird hawkmoths, too and last year one of the staff in the nursery saw a Large Blue in one of the greenhouses, so I hope that comes back again. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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