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 A Common Pug stopped by on my window today for a rest, and to warm his wings in the spring sunshine. Not the best photo due to his choice of position, but you can see his detailing nicely :)  He’s early this year, and out in the day, so doubly rare! location: Derbyshire, UK. 

A Common Pug moth with wings spread open on the other side of a window.
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A cinnabar moth flew into the house when I had the back door open a couple of weeks ago, so I took advantage of its visit to snap a few photos before the children and I escorted it back outside to the rudbeckia. I guess they're fond of the rudbeckia because they're from the same family (Asteraceae) as ragwort; we usually find the stems and leaves covered with cinnabar moth caterpillars. The caterpillars never seem to damage the plants to any serious extent, as they always bloom profusely in late summer.

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Yesterday I went for a walk in the woods with a couple friends. We saw a big fat green caterpillar on the path. It was probably about as wide as my finger. It had rows of little orange dots along its sides that looked like they had little hairs projecting from them. We weren't sure if it was alive, but my friend picked it up with a leaf to move it off the path, and it wriggled.

Later we saw a white-and-black moth on the wall of a restaurant where we were waiting for take-out.

That moth and its wing patterns made me think of a moth of a different sort that I saw in August last year. It was on one of the choir music stands at my church. I took it outside on a piece of sheet music and it eventually flew away. It was dark brown with lighter-brown criss-cross-y patterns on its wings.

If anyone has any tips on what any of these are, I'm interested.

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Scarlet tiger moth
My youngest found this scarlet tiger moth trapped in the porch, and ceremoniously rescued it in a glass.

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