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29 July 2010
Another Toadflax Brocade Moth pic
Shortly after we released it and it flew off quite content
Astonishing little miracles of chemistry. Almost every secret of the living world embodied in a tiny creature that just wants to fly into the light. Marvellous, but rather daft, just like us.
Shortly after we released it and it flew off quite content
Astonishing little miracles of chemistry. Almost every secret of the living world embodied in a tiny creature that just wants to fly into the light. Marvellous, but rather daft, just like us.
ReplyDeleteOh theey are wonders but daft as they are they won't blow each other up!
ReplyDeleteIt has lovely markings :-)
ReplyDeleteTHanks Cherie it may not be as bright as a butterfly but it is beautiful in its own way
ReplyDeleteThat's a moth? Looks more like a floor-sweeper thingie!!
ReplyDeleteHow very odd!
ReplyDeleteI just found a German moth from my friend's "My Forest Garden" blog, that looks very similar indeed to your brocade mothie:
http://mein-waldgarten.blogspot.com/2010/07/besuch-am-nachmittag.html
Haha Gledwood, Iddly enough the toadflax brocade moth is rare here but common across a swathe of the world, including Germany, I think
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