Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Moth


Whilst watching In The Attic, Jill called me out to see this Moth. Thought it worthy of a photo. After a quick search on the internet I found this info about it:

The spectacular Emperor moth is Britain's only resident member of the Saturniidae family. It is reasonably common over much of Britain, occupying moorland and open country.The males, which have bright orange hindwings, fly during the daytime in search of the greyer females, which fly at night. Both sexes are on the wing in April and May.The fully grown caterpillar is green with black hoops containing yellow wart-like spots, and feeds on moorland plants such as heather (Calluna) and bramble (Rubus). Wingspa 40-60mm. This is a female.

2 comments:

Gary said...

I think this should be the artwork for Pete's new CD don't you? Excellent photo, how'd you get so close up to it?

Loved the pics of Pete on Russ Halfin's site. Did you catch the comment about Pearl Jam... ?

Fleur de Bee said...

WOW brilliant photo!!!!