Micro Moth – Dragon goes Wild https://padfoot.org.uk Tue, 19 Jul 2016 19:25:37 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://padfoot.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-512a-32x32.jpg Micro Moth – Dragon goes Wild https://padfoot.org.uk 32 32 Bee Moth https://padfoot.org.uk/2016/07/another-micro-moth/ https://padfoot.org.uk/2016/07/another-micro-moth/#respond Mon, 04 Jul 2016 18:59:43 +0000 http://padfoot.org.uk/?p=597 Another day, another moth…. And another one that didn’t seem to appear in my moth identification book! This moth was less than an inch in length, and was sitting on the front wall today. It almost blended in perfectly with the stonework.

Dragon Goes Wild - Day 34 - Another Micro Moth

Dragon Goes Wild - Day 34 - Another Micro Moth

After looking at various different photos on websites to try and identify it, I wondered if it might be a Bee Moth – one photo I saw looked nothing like mine, but the photos on UK Moths were almost identical!

The male Bee Moth has brighter colours and a more pronounced pattern than the female, so maybe this one is male and the other photo I saw was of a female! Apparently it’s a fairly common species, although this is the first I’ve seen.

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