While gardening this afternoon in the lovely spring weather I disturbed this plume moth, Emmelina monodactyla. She fluttered slowly and settled on the wall adopting its usual T-shape position with folded wings protecting their feathery divisions. The first moth of the year for me.
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UKmoths page for Emmelina monodactyla
It is coming!
ReplyDeleteSaw my first 2013 Pentatoma rufipes (AKA Forest bug) early nymphs 3 days ago.
Ray