http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/ GLOUCESTERSHIRE MOTH GROUP Sat, 25 May 2013 19:14:36 GMT brownmoth68 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3318 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3318 Hello Neale, It was on a dandelion. I suspect it could be a poorly marked fuscalis, but it didn't look worn, and it didn't look like the fuscalis I usually Sat, 25 May 2013 18:44:12 GMT Neale http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3317 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3317 do you have the specimen? It could be terrealis or a poorly marked fuscalis best Neale Sat, 25 May 2013 18:36:00 GMT Neale http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3316 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3316 Hi Pavlo what is the flower you photographed it on? Best Neale Sat, 25 May 2013 18:21:06 GMT brownmoth68 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3315 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3315 Hello, I'd be grateful if someone would identify this moth for me ( last photo in Pavlomoth ). It was at Painswick beacon today. ,It has similarities with Sat, 25 May 2013 18:16:16 GMT Neale http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3314 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3314 I have posted a Nep caught in low sunlight today flying between a mountain ash tree and an oak tree. I realise that we need a leaf mine etc but just wondered Sat, 25 May 2013 12:58:37 GMT Peter http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3313 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3313 This, actually, might be one thing to do: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/22/citizen-scientists-help-calbug/ Sat, 25 May 2013 12:53:39 GMT Peter http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3312 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3312 The most diverse catch in the MV garden trap so far this year is just 10 species. The GMS Actinic at Slimbridge this week managed no moths - not a single one. Wed, 22 May 2013 19:05:56 GMT Neale http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3311 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3311 Well done Peter!! Excellent lets keep up the rhetoric and inform as many as we can Here is my letter Dear Kerry McCarthy, My name is Neale Mellersh I am a full Wed, 22 May 2013 19:00:29 GMT Neale http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3310 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3310 Nice one Robert i have just posted this on GMS as well I have written to my MP as well. best Neale Wed, 22 May 2013 18:38:27 GMT Peter http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3309 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3309 ....and just to reiterate what Zoe is asking us to do, I recently sent a hard copy of "The State of Britain's Larger Moths" to every MP in Gloucestershire and Wed, 22 May 2013 14:31:34 GMT Robert Homan http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3308 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3308 Hello The message below is copied from one circulated by Zoe Randle at BC. The motion already has modest, cross-party support. **** Our recent report ? The Wed, 22 May 2013 10:56:14 GMT Peter http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3307 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3307 Guy and Neale, Having had another good look at these I totally agree with your idents. of musculana and badiana. As for semifulvella/swammerdamella, I caught Wed, 22 May 2013 07:52:19 GMT guymere http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3306 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3306 Peter, Your Nematopogon photo looked quite like T. semifulvella to me (though its dark tornal spot was missing), but with the long antennae then it could be Wed, 22 May 2013 07:31:58 GMT Peter http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3305 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3305 Thank you Neale and Guy. I'll revise my record and swat up on these. Guy - yes, I thought there were some more recent cow pats on the slope,and hoof prints on Tue, 21 May 2013 20:19:27 GMT Neale http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3304 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glosmoths/message/3304 Hi Peter I believe grotiana is 986 Syndemis musculana agree with badiana the Adela type is a difficult photo but i think it is 140 Nematopogon swammerdamella