C.Rayz's photos with the keyword: Hepialus sylvina

This orange swift seemed quite brown, and I had thought I had a female here, actually it maybe just a darker male. Female was there on a later date so photos to follow :)

Finally got a female :)

Not often you get to see them open, this one landed on my light man but he was quivering.

Possibly female as well. One of the 6 we counted on the evening.

Can't resist this great chance to post a lovely example of the female of this moth.

These moths and the followng bugs come from a evening at Wainwright Close Meadow. We've been calling it 'Ron's Meadow', our friend and fellow moth'er from the Hastings Moth Group folks found this little jewel and has adopted it :). It's a lovely tiny meadow which has loads of lovely meadow plants and a hedge surrounding it of small trees and black/Hawthorn, a large oak, and a pond with lots of pond plants smack in the middle of an industrial estate. Its council owned but is being managed by another soul who loves it as well, we have yet to find or meet. We decided we'd do a bit of a night time bug count with moth traps and these are the results in the 'Wainwright Close Meadow" set.