Wildlife: Macro Moths

Wildlife macro images from the Natural World of our smaller inhabitants.
This Gallery is for the Lepidoptera known as macro moths. These are our more modern moths evolutionary wise and generally (but not always) larger that the micro moths.

Green-silver lines (Pseudoips prasinana ssp. britannica) on Youn

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Green-silver lines (Pseudoips prasinana ssp. britannica) on Youn

Photographed on the Friday 26 June 2015.
A moth of deciduous woodlands this moth also comes to light and this is one that was moth-trapped in our back garden. The Green Silver-lines (Pseudoips prasinana) is a striking green moth with red legs and antennae. Seen here on its preferred food source ‘Oak’. It overwinters as a larvae on the underside of leaves or in the bark crevices of the food plant. This moth belongs to the Class Insecta, Order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies), Family Noctuidae, Sub-Family Chloephorinae and Genus Pseudoips.
More information can be found here:
http://butterfly-conservation.org/1866-12798/green-silver-lines.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoips_prasinana
http://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/pseudoips-prasinana/

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