This has been on my garage door all day, don’t remember seeing these very often.
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This has been on my garage door all day, don’t remember seeing these very often.
Lime Hawk-moth - Mimas tiliae.
No idea what it is doing so far north, or on the wing in September!
Gorgeous insect: good spot!
It is beautiful, how lucky to see it.
A very good place to check moth finds is http://www.caithnessmoths.org.uk/
Each month has section on what to lookout for - eg October http://forum.caithness.org/showthread.php?279484-Moth
Neil Money runs the site - http://www.caithnessmoths.org.uk/cou...orderpage.html
Actually this moth is not Lime Hawk-moth but Angle Shades (Phlogophora meticulosa)
Hi, thanks for the info, certainly looks like that one.
Sorry, Bigfoot! I should have left this to someone who knows what they are talking about (or at least looked at the picture properly).
No worries, i have that conversation with myself on a daily basis :)