Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Chestnut or Dark Chestnut?

My wife found this on the kitchen window last night. It's a bit tatty which may make the wing shape based distinction between a Chestnut or Dark Chestnut tricky. I was thinking perhaps the Dark Chestnut?

Still nothing in the trap last night.

Mark Griffiths, Garsington, Oxford.



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  1. Marc Botham20 February 2014 at 09:36

    Hi Mark,

    Both look like Chestnut to me. BW, Marc Botham

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  2. Mark Griffiths20 February 2014 at 23:02

    thanks Marc!

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  3. Marc Botham23 February 2014 at 11:11

    No problem, it'd be good to hear others' thoughts as, like you said, when they're a bit worn they are tricky from photos. In the hand I find them 'relatively' straight forward as they have a slightly different posture/jizz. To me the wings in Chestnut are always fairly rounded but much straighter in Dark Chestnut and Dark Chestnut always seems a narrower moth as a result. BW, Marc

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