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Tuesday 30 August 2011

A Skircoat-found chrysalis


Produced this.
I.d. anybody?
Closest I can get is a species of swift ?
It survived the attentions of the curious fingers of a four year-old granddaughter .

3 comments:

  1. I've just remembered - there's one called Angle Shades. Is this that? And is it in the swift group?

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  2. It is indeed a fine looking Angle Shades - family noctuidae (400+ species recorded in the UK). The swifts are hepialidae (5 species in the UK).

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