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Capt Podge

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Strange to see this creature
« on: June 10, 2019, 03:26:40 pm »
Found this on my car wing mirror this morning so I moved it to the bottom of my house wall and it was still there when I got back home. I believe it is an elephant hawk moth, judging by the images I've been looking at on the Internet.
Anyway I hope it will be away when the sun goes down.


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Re: Strange to see this creature
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2019, 03:55:57 pm »

We saw another strange one at Wicksteed... still don't know what type of Dragonfly it actually is!


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Re: Strange to see this creature
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2019, 04:02:44 pm »
Looks like a Golden Snitch  {-)
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Re: Strange to see this creature
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2019, 04:04:36 pm »
That's another one to go searching for - at first glance I thought it was a metal brooch!  {-)

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Re: Strange to see this creature
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2019, 04:19:04 pm »
There's quite a few similar looking dragonflies to that one Martin - probably an Orange meadow hawk  :-)) .


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Re: Strange to see this creature
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2019, 08:25:04 am »
They have some very funny creatures oop Norf
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Re: Strange to see this creature
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2019, 08:32:39 am »
Its got caught in the zip!
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Re: Strange to see this creature
« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2019, 04:09:35 pm »
Quote from: Capt Podge on June 10, 2019, 04:19:04 pm
There's quite a few similar looking dragonflies to that one Martin - probably an Orange meadow hawk  :-)) .
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Hi Ray,
Orange meadowhawk ..... might be!
This one was actually gold in colour, shiny gold!
One webpage said it may have just hatched... pupated  and hadn't got it true colours yet.
Tell you one thing, we couldn't coax off the bag for anything, it was hanging on for dear life!
In the end I held it against a bush and it grabbed at it.....

Steve Irwin me!
 
 
 
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Re: Strange to see this creature
« Reply #8 on: June 11, 2019, 04:34:56 pm »
Thanks for the update Martin. Maybe its parents came down from the Scottish lochs and it homed in on the tartan bag :o {-)


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Re: Strange to see this creature
« Reply #9 on: June 11, 2019, 07:11:35 pm »
Dragonflies are such amazing things. We have massive ones where I stay for work near Paris. Back home in Inverness last summer I had a hawk moth so big it barely fitted in an upturned pint glass to move it somewhere safe. Nice to see big bugs every now and again, especially in the UK (so long as it's not wasps or spiders which are the devil's servants LoL).
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Re: Strange to see this creature
« Reply #10 on: June 11, 2019, 07:34:26 pm »
Probably very nutritious too.


And very crunchy...,.
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Re: Strange to see this creature
« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2019, 12:07:37 am »
From Wiki
The Bogong moth is an icon of Australian wildlife due to its historical role as an important food source and because aboriginal tribes would come to where the moths spend the summer to feast on them and hold intertribal gatherings
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