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FellTop said:
Cracking that. I have to say I find moths bloody terrifying things. Make my skin crawl. But that is impressive to see.
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Aye usually the further away I am from a large moth the happier I am but this one was fascinating. So odd to see one animal behaving exactly like another, like seeing a cat with an 8 foot neck grazing on a tree.
 
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Nacho said:
Saw one of these little guys on the lavender the other day, wasn't aware of their existence before but it couldn't have been described as anything other than a hummingbird moth.

Fascinating watching him going about his business, surely must have evolved from a hummingbird at some point, the similarity was uncanny.

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Totally different species with absolutely no connection whatsoever, just evolved to make use of the same food sources. A great example of convergent evolution.
 
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rowley said:
Pesticides on verges which councils are obliged to maintain are a terror for bees and insects of all kinds. It saves them cutting them more often my mate tells me.
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lot of council verges are intentionally down with wildflowers now.
 
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Nacho said:
Saw one of these little guys on the lavender the other day, wasn't aware of their existence before but it couldn't have been described as anything other than a hummingbird moth.

Fascinating watching him going about his business, surely must have evolved from a hummingbird at some point, the similarity was uncanny.

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Saw a bunch of those in Spain a few years ago. I was fascinated by them, trying to work out what the hell they were. Looked so much like hummingbirds. It's only a lot more recently that I googled and worked out they were a type of moth.
 
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RTB said:
Out walking this afternoon and saw this hiding in the grass

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They are everywhere now. They are pretty destructive really and don't have a natural predator.
They need culling.
 
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rowley said:
They are everywhere now. They are pretty destructive really and don't have a natural predator.
They need culling.
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Muntjac?

They are appearing round here more and more. I saw them in our local woodland a few years ago and was told I was seeing things. Now they can even be seen in the open fields at times.
 
My missus made me do a nomowmay, so today I went to cut it, it is full of baby frogs, so that’s no cutting for the foreseeable future <laugh><laugh>
 
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My missus took this picture when we did the North Coast 500, she wanted to get it framed but I said it was just two deer :emoticon-0102-bigsm:emoticon-0102-bigsm

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rowley said:
They are everywhere now. They are pretty destructive really and don't have a natural predator.
They need culling.
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:emoticon-0104-surpr
Nowhere near as destructive as the local council with their 'forestry management' con. Removing massive trees and then planting a few hundred twigs <doh>
 
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Garden at work, watched a sparrowhawk devouring a pigeon, while the pigeons mate looked on.
Took a video of it, but cant upload it on here, so a screenshot from the video...

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Snaggey said:
Garden at work, watched a sparrowhawk devouring a pigeon, while the pigeons mate looked on.
Took a video of it, but cant upload it on here, so a screenshot from the video...

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Right ruthless bastards are the sparrow hawks.
 
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