OT: lime hawk moth

 

Photographed at the side of a road, rather than in a garden - therefore
OT.

     http://www.flickr.com/photos/27317581@N06/3619921914/
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Stewart Robert Hinsley

 



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Looks like a camouflaged V Bomber from the 60's ;-))

Can't beat nature for design ;-)

Mike

 



Oh my!  Beautiful!  I have never seen such a moth.

 

On Jun 12, 5:01 pm, Stewart Robert Hinsley <
{$new...@meden.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Oh yes, I remember that fellow. When I was at school in the fifties I
had an eccentric octogenarian Latin master who had a mercury vapour
lamp for moth catching. I had always hated moths so it was just my
luck to be picked on one day to be sent to his house near the school
to collect an interesting moth he had trapped the night before. When I
got there his ancient housekeeper told me it was in the study.I looked
all round and couldn't see it. Finally she said," There it is on the
curtain." "How do I catch it?" "I don't know, I ain't gonna touch it."
In the end she found me a small box and I caught it. And that is
exactly what it was, beautiful but I still can't stand them.

 



Magnificent!  Just the sort of OT I like.  Thanks, Stewart.

Spider