First Moth - ID needed

Suzanne B · #1 (**permalink**) 16-02-2008, 08:59 PM

This is the first moth I have spotted in my yard this year, so now all I need is an id for it.

It's approximately 15mm long.
Thanks

goosey · #2 (**permalink**) 17-02-2008, 07:57 AM

I don't know much about micro moths - so this is only an idea but it could be a Light Brown Apple Moth, Epiphyas postvittana?They are active this time of year.

H Dogg · #3 (**permalink**) 17-02-2008, 01:03 PM

yes Epiphyas postvittana

Suzanne B · #4 (**permalink**) 18-02-2008, 11:41 AM

Thanks for the ID goosey and H Dogg.
Last night when I went to see if it was still there it was hanging off my back door upside by one leg, looking quite dead!

So I managed to carefully manouvre it off and put it somewhere more suitable where it shook it's wings and had a little walk about. It's gone this morning though so hopefully it's somewhere nice sunning itself.

goosey · #5 (**permalink**) 18-02-2008, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Suzanne B

Thanks for the ID goosey and H Dogg.
Last night when I went to see if it was still there it was hanging off my back door upside by one leg, looking quite dead!

So I managed to carefully manouvre it off and put it somewhere more suitable where it shook it's wings and and had a little walk about. It's gone this morning though so hopefully it's somewhere nice sunning itself.

Perhaps it had got caught on a thread from a spiders web? well done for rescuing it

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