Dream come true! It’s only taken 20 years of mothing but finally a female Emperor Moth 😍 #Dartmoor #MagnificentMoths BC Devon Branch
Fun evening torchlight surveying for Fisher’s Estuarine Moth (Gortyna borelii) with the fab #MagnificentMoths team Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London
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Our brand-new project Kent's Magnificent Moths launches today! 🎉🐛 Thanks to @heritagefunduk it will help to save and celebrate some of the UK’s rarest moths. Go to @kentbutterflies #MagnificentMoths butrfli.es/3sZ3QuI 📷 Bob Eade
Also on Sunday, an afternoon at RSPB Blean Woods was successful in locating several Anania funebris, the second of Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London #MagnificentMoths of the trip. Also loads of Heath Fritillaries, a Purple Hairstreak and several White Admirals.
A fun eve moth trapping with volunteers & staff at Woodland Trust🌳 Longbeech North 🌳🌲🌿 Lots of species recorded including Birch mocha, Lesser Swallow prominent, Chinese character, Peach blossom, Black arches, Iron & Coxcomb prominent Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London KentMoths #magnificentmoths
Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) garden visitor this morning, enjoying the Salvia Nachtvlinder. These beautiful purple flowers also attract lots of bees and hoverflies 🥰🌿🌸 Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London KentMoths Monty Don Buglife Kate Bradbury 🏳️🌈 #magnificentmoths
Great day with Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Kent #MagnificentMoths project colleagues & Tony Davis. So good to meet up & they brought cake - Brimstone moth themed! Ended the evening surveying for Fisher's Estuarine Moth, fabulous 😁 The National Lottery Heritage Fund Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London
They grow up so fast! My Elephant Hawk-moth caterpillars are getting chunky and brown. Plenty of Rosebay Willowherb in the garden but they have chosen the fuchsias. Butterfly Conservation 🦋 KentMoths Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London #MagnificentMoths
Highlights of this year's black veined moth season included the sightings of individuals across our landscape of arable reversion sites in various stages of succession & encouraging wider dispersal. 👍 to our farmers & Butterfly Conservation 🦋 sean clancy for surveys #magnificentmoths
Some great snaps here from our Folkestone Rangers of the life stages of the Six-Spot Burnet moth
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Double the amount of fun Samphire Hoe to end the summer!
Which one will you be joining??
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Another great evening Surveying Fisher's Estuarine Moth. This time at Swalecliffe SSSI with Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London as part of the #MagnificentMoths project. With 21 of these superb Moths recorded, great news for this vulnerable site.KentMoths
Our Kent’s Magnificent Moths team getting families involved with surveying in Kent last week 🐛🐛 #surveying #MagnificentMoths #mothsmatter #familydayout #wildlifeconservation #insecthunt
A big thanks to #magnificentmoths volunteers confirming the breeding status of black veined moth on arable reversion. Farmers like Robert Maylam creating a new generation of wildflower grasslands driving species recovery @landscape scale +long term 1-1 farm advice =key to success
