Having taken a pretty keen interest in wildlife as a kid, I'm always surprised to see an insect I've never come across before. Does anyone know what this rather lovely moth is, enjoying the view from the top of my mint?Of course, I know you'll probably tell me it's the blighter that destroys my peas in their pods or produces those wormy green grubs I keep finding in my soil, but it's good to know the enemy too...
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If it was a bit less than an inch across the wingtips, it looks like Pyrausta purpuralis. It's not in my caterpillar book so I don't know what it eats. It's a family that produces a lot of pests of dried food, plus the dreaded wax moths which devour bee comb.
I really must get a proper moth book!
Is this it?
http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=1182
Not one I've seen I'm afraid.
Good detective work, Robert, I'm impressed! So it's out to eat my mint, huh? Well I think I can spare it some, for now at least.
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