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Tiny pink moth ID please
On 2013-07-28 08:16:44 +0000, Malcolm said:
In article , Sacha writes Presently clinging to our bedroom ceiling is a very small, very pink moth. It's not one we're familiar with and Ray's attempt to take a photo of it is defeated by the height of the ceiling and the size of the moth! I'm not at all sure there are any distinguishing marks on it but the wings seem to be a slightly deeper pink towards the bottom. I would think it's about an inch or so long. If anyone has any idea as to what it might be we'd be grateful to hear it. A moth an inch long is not "very small", but quite large! Is it anything like this? http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=3580 No, not at all, I'm afraid. Try half an inch perhaps - I'm really bad at judging such things from a distance. It flew a little lower last night onto a sloping part of our bedroom ceiling. It's very pink but seemed to have black spots along the wings, which we couldn't see before. It's now disappeared so I have no chance of seeing it again, unless it decides to visit. I've never seen one like it. I suppose it may be a butterfly that wandered in by accident but all its behaviour leads me to think 'moth'. Ray took a couple of photos when it was higher up and tomorrow, I'll post them. But they really are very unclear, so I'm not sure they'll help. It was the overall 'pinkness' that struck me. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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