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Wednesday, 9 August 2017

Yesterday morning (Tuesday August 8th) I found this beautiful creature almost drowning on the metal walkway outside our building. Unable to identify it, I sent the photo to our very own Moth expert, Charlie Streets. For those people at last night's meeting who also didn't recognise it, Charlie has identified it as a Lesser Swallow Prominent (Pheosia gnoma), showing the chocolate brown head and thorax typical of the Northern form (apparently!). Charlie also supplied this useful link:

https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/pheosia-gnoma/


Lesser Swallow Prominent (Pheosia gnoma)
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2 comments:

  1. Steve Blacksmith9 August 2017 at 14:14

    Striking moth Annie ! Well done for finding its identity. Thanks to Charlie for the knowledge.

    We've seen some spectacular moths this spring/summer. The Peppered moth at Hardcastle Crags while we were Balsam bashing is memorable, as is the Poplar Hawkmoth at Woodhouse Road, Tod. Also the Hummingbird Hawkmoth I found at West Central Halifax, visiting the garden sage flowers.

    I missed the Emperors again though :-(

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  2. charlie streets10 August 2017 at 14:28

    Members of this family usually roost well out of sight by day so it was probably displaced by the heavy rainfall - quite a fortuitous find!

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