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hastingsmothman

First box of 2025. Wasn't expecting anything, to be honest, so surprised to get three. Of course, I could have bet my mortgage on them being these three given how early it is in the season. Hardy souls from last night:

1) Hebrew Character (left)
2) Early Grey (top right)
3) Common Quaker (bottom right)

Overhead shot of triangular moth, about 2 cm long on a finger. It has a furry head and nape. It is largely different shades of brown but has two distinct cream-edged, black L shapes, one of each wing with the inner edge of the L being concave rounded which partly surrounds a cream bordered circular stigmata. The lower edge of each L is also slightly concave adjoining atop a cream bordered kidney-shaped stigmata. Below this, running wing edge to wing edge is a shallow W shaped light purple line.
A side on shot of a 1cm moth on a finger. It is light grey with black or dark grey flecks and flashes. It has a furry head with a small mohican. It has black and white stripey legs.
Overhead shot of a 1.5cm triangular moth on a finger. It faces downwards rather than upwards. It is a a mid-sandy brown with two stigmata on each wing, one circular, one kidney-shaped. Towards the bottom wing edge there is a brown orange and a cream line running left to right across both wings below which runs a series of faint black dots again running left to right wing edge to wing edge. The very bottom wing edge is fringed.
#mothing#lepidoptera#nature
Mar 10, 2025, 08:14 AM·Public·Web
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ax6761

@hastingsmothman Aw, y does “Early Grey” have the first “y”?

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hastingsmothman

@ax6761 I can't tell if this is a genuine question 🤔 or sarcasm 😉 , but I will go with genuine and say because March is very early in the year for moths, so 'early' rather than 'late'. For the avoidance of doubt, it is not an Earl. 🙂

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ax6761

@hastingsmothman Thank you.

I was expressing disappointment; the tea (moth) was right there.

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Pollinators

@hastingsmothman It’s good descriptions of moths with alt text.

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neville park

@hastingsmothman for one unhinged pre-caffeine second i thought it was "box" like one of those monthly subscription boxes and you were just getting sent random moths in the mail

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hastingsmothman

@nev In theory, that could be quite fun. A little cruel on the moths maybe, but who doesn't like a little package through the letterbox?! I prefer the word "box" to "trap", because trap suggests a) they might die (they don't) and b) they can't escape, but actually they can escape with a bit of effort (and many do come and go overnight!) Most choose to snuggle up in warm egg boxes.

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