tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post1048554186394408415..comments2024-03-27T13:44:47.825+01:00Comments on Chateau Moorhen..... goes south!: Moths and moth caterpillars seen recentlyMillymollymandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12990749863025598526noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-72343379141724571252014-06-25T15:19:04.376+02:002014-06-25T15:19:04.376+02:00Thanks Nick - love finding moth caterpillars as th...Thanks Nick - love finding moth caterpillars as they are often more stunning than the moths. I keep meaning to do something simple like a sheet over an airer with a torch, just to see what might appear, but it's not dark until late here now and I'm way too tired to do that sort of thing gone 11pm. :-( And I'm not getting up at 4.30am either (not start of dawn until about 5.30am here thankfully so unlike in SW England when I get woken with sun streaming through the window at 4.30 silly o'clock in the morning!)Millymollymandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990749863025598526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-32507700506521770032014-06-19T00:32:52.994+02:002014-06-19T00:32:52.994+02:00Great shots of the colourful caterpillars and moth...Great shots of the colourful caterpillars and moths Mandy. We don't seem to get such vivid examples. My furry caterpillar up at LochRannoch is the most colourful one I've seen in years. While we were at Rannoch, moth hunters were putting out traps to try and estimate numbers of the Rannoch Sprawler moth. Not sophisticated traps - go on, you can make one.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606785084693145234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-22226500082594335772014-06-17T09:16:59.695+02:002014-06-17T09:16:59.695+02:00Hi Amanda and thank you! I love hairy and interest...Hi Amanda and thank you! I love hairy and interesting caterpillars so always happy when I find one. My problem is half of the ones I do find, I can never remember their names!<br /><br />I did see a bit of that programme, the bit where he was talking to the medicine man about the healing plants but I haven't been watching it. So busy in the garden I haven't watched much telly and am still catching up with some recorded episodes of Springwatch! Can't use I Player because it is only available to those in the UK, unfortunately. :-(Millymollymandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990749863025598526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-44788574186144827022014-06-16T13:18:13.558+02:002014-06-16T13:18:13.558+02:00Hi Mandy, lovely photos in your post, Caterpillars...Hi Mandy, lovely photos in your post, Caterpillars are something I really don't get to see, had some tiny ones but that's about it.. Had a Mapgie moth in the house last night, first time I have seen one.<br />Have you been watching "I Bought a Rainforest" BBC 2 might need to catch up on I player, by Charlie Hamilton James, well worth a watch.. <br />Amanda xxAmanda Petershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16760505541954557539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-67634481628922404272014-06-13T15:17:46.271+02:002014-06-13T15:17:46.271+02:00I'm not really coastal, I always think of us a...I'm not really coastal, I always think of us as inland, but given the size of France, about 40kms to the nearest mud flats of the bay of Mont St Michel is fairly close! <br /><br />I would love a moth trap and am going to try to cobble something together with a light and a sheet, just to have a look see at what is about here. I know little about moths and obviously only see the ones I see during the day! Thanks for your visit JJ and nice comments. :-) Millymollymandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990749863025598526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-75286805233116217782014-06-13T09:42:45.982+02:002014-06-13T09:42:45.982+02:00Some lovely shots here again and great moths/cater...Some lovely shots here again and great moths/caterpillars. I have always wanted to find the lackey moth larvae but they don't seem to turn up much inland, perhaps they are more of a coastal species? Anyhow, wonderful looking larvae. The mullein I haven't seen for a couple of years now but then I have only ever found them on mullein itself and I haven't seen any of that either.<br /><br />I see most of your moths in my trap here in the south of the U.K. but don't often see them out during daylight as you have. Another interesting update, thanks for sharing...JJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07910443806244769469noreply@blogger.com