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~ Thursday, May 29, 2003
WINGS OF DESIRE Some excellent butterfly and moth names: Alder Kitten / Small Angle Shades / False Apollo / Bleached Pug Aquamarine Hairstreak / Beautiful Snout / Pale Brindled Beauty Ruddy Carpet / Moonlight Jewel / Setaceous Hebrew Character Flounced Chestnut / Scarce Chocolate-tip / Raspberry Clearwing Klug's Xenica / Confused Pellicia / Lemon Pansy / Pretty Pinion Cynthia Silkmoth / Dew Footman / Dingy Shears / The Drinker Small-spotted Flasher / Forest Pierrot / Cloudless Giant Sulphur Great Sooty Satyr / Smoky Wainscot / Pallid Tiger Swallowtail Heart and Dart / Red Helen / Rannoch Sprawler / Union Rustic Oslar's Eacles / Black and White Aeroplane / Light Know Grass Glassywing / Hoary Footman / One-eyed Sphinx / Splendid Royal Double Kidney / Pebble Hook-tip/ Suspected / Chimney Sweeper Diana Moonbeam / Nut-tree Tussock / Frosted-green Lutestring Isle of Wight Wave / Lobster Prominent / Ruby Tiger / Neglected Lapland Ringlet / Water Betony / Guatemalan Calico / The Hermit Lettuce Shark / Rice Looper / Woolly Bear / Lesser Fiery Copper Scarce Vapourer / Staff Sergeant / Mexican Sister / Heath Rivulet Tropical Least Skipperling / The Lurcher / Spanish Gatekeeper Dark Spectacle / Case-making Clothes Moth / Northern Spinach Straw Underwing / Northern Grizzled Skipper / Zebra Longwing Pine Processionary / Pale-shouldered Brocade / Apricot Sulphur I've missed out the wonderfully named fritillaries who deserve a list of their own at a later date... honourable mention to the billy-goat plum stinging caterpillar! Source: various |