What's In A Name?

Let us begin with a  'You were warned, remember?'   :)

Moths, moths, moths.

Why did I first get interested in them?

Well, it comes from seeing sightings reports, and all those weird wonderful 'What the actual..?!?' names so many of them have.

 

Butterflies tend to the functional; 'Marsh Fritillary'... It's a fritillary that you'll find in marshy areas. 'Large White'... Yeah, exactly.

Then you get the moths.

Oh do you get them.

One name that stood out to me, reading lists of light-trapped lovelies [many seemingly near-identical brown oblong-things] was what seemed to be the most gratuitously over-named thing going. It caught in my memory and has stuck there ever since.

This week, at long last, I've seen one.

It was sat on my car, tucked in tight to the windscreen wiper, and I noticed it only as I drove off. 

'Damn'

Pull over, camera out, what's this?

This;

A bit burned out, but not

a bad pic for the hour....

This - and those triangles with black bits next to them are characteristic - is none other than the wonderfully titled

Setaceous Hebrew Character

Yes, really.*

[The black marks look like a Hebrew letter, allegedly. And yes there is a Hebrew Character, too...]

I am more than a little delighted.

:D

While I'm at the moths, here are some more...

[Oh dear]

A Beauty**

It was a Heart And Dart, 

in the time it took

to get my camera

it became dinner....

[Four-spotted Footman eyes

very hopeful spider and 

says "Try it, mate"]

Small Dusty Wave

August Thorn

Lychnis

One that got away.!

Portland Ribbon Wave

Dark Sword-grass

Minor Shoulder-knot

f. saliceti

Mecyna asinalis

At last! 

[Of course it's one of those 

'technical' micros.....]

Ahem.

[[You may quake in fear to learn that I have Yet More in the works. Worse, they're almost entirely pugs and crambids....  Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgghhhh...... ]]

Be Seeing You...

[[* Which is actually very common and generally all over the place if you're a proper mother with a light trap and so on.... ]]

[[** This looks like a Great Oak Beauty, 2nd gen., but while they do occur 'in Devon' - according to W,T,L - Willow Beauty is the only one of the beauty spp. in range on the maps.. Hmm.]]