Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Small Moths copula
Posted by Roger Thomason on 06-03-2009 17:30
#1
Photographed in my garden in July '08. Size..under 10mm, if I remember correctly. Family? Species?
Edited by Roger Thomason on 07-03-2009 11:26
Posted by pwalter on 06-03-2009 17:51
#2
Hi! Crambidae, Crambinae cf. There are some similar, such pale species.
Edited by pwalter on 06-03-2009 17:51
Posted by Roger Thomason on 06-03-2009 20:28
#3
Thanks pwalter, I'll have a trawl through UK Moths and see if I can come up with a match.
Regards Roger
Posted by Tony Irwin on 06-03-2009 22:08
#4
I think almost certainly
Agriphila straminella
Posted by Juergen Peters on 07-03-2009 03:49
#5
Hello!
Tony Irwin wrote:
I think almost certainly Agriphila straminella
Yes. There are millions of them on meadows in the summer here in our region...
Posted by Roger Thomason on 07-03-2009 11:25
#6
Thanks Tony and Juergen
I came to the same conclusion after looking around the Web. Very common here too I think. They are very active and hard to photograph, so I was lucky to catch them in a position where they could be photographed.
Regards Roger
Edited by Roger Thomason on 07-03-2009 12:12