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Moth - Six Spot Burnet

  • 18-08-2011 1:05pm
    #1
    V Bull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 719 ✭✭✭


    I came across this little guy a couple of weeks ago. Is he coming out or burrowing into the ground, thanks..

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  • #2
    E39MSport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭E39MSport


    Six-spot Burnet - Thousands of these guys in flight with some caterpilars about too in one field in Donegal

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    Lots of cocoons too

    6SpotCocoonDonegal201108.jpg


  • #3
    Mothman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    That is strange looking.
    I wonder was it looking to lay eggs.

    Sport posted a pic of the cocoon which is attached to stem above ground, so certainly not emerging.

    Also I don't recall seeing yellow rings on any I've seen. I'll have to think and perhaps confer about this. Something not adding up...:)


  • #4
    V Bull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 719 ✭✭✭V Bull


    Thanks Mothman, for location info, it was half way along the beach between railway crossing and Little Tern nest site at Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow. Photo taken about 2 and a half weeks ago. May not be a six spot burnet then.......


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