Showing posts with label Elephant Hawkmoth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elephant Hawkmoth. Show all posts

Saturday, 7 June 2014

Elephant Hawkmoths

Last night, I caught an Elephant Hawkmoth, which I have seen many times in my moth trap. However, there was also a similar but much smaller hawkmoth, which I was delighted to identify as a Small Elephant Hawkmoth, of which there is just one previous Islay record - one seen by Becky at Killinallan in 2011. The only other record in this area is one in north Jura in 2004.
The tubes the moths were photographed in are the same size, which nicely demonstrates the difference in their sizes.
Malcolm
Elephant Hawkmoth

Small Elephant Hawkmoth