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+====== 19 Jul 2025: Tiger Moths! ======
+[{{:news:2025:20250719-152454-5882-1080x810.jpg?400  |Jersey Tiger moth (//Euplagia quadripunctaria//)}}]
+[{{:news:2025:1000012674-cropped.jpg?400|Ruby Tiger moth (//Phragmatobia fuliginosa//)}}]
+A brightly coloured moth flew past one of our members,
+showing dark wings with cream markings on the forewings and red on the hindwings,
+so we suspected it to be a Scarlet Tiger moth (//Callimorpha dominula//).
+These have been common in the Fordingbridge area and other places on the Hampshire Avon since at least the early 1970's,
+and have recently become much more widespread in southern Britain.
+The moth came to rest on holly underneath a hazel bush,
+and to our surprise turned out to be the closely related and similarly coloured
+[[https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/euplagia-quadripunctaria/|Jersey Tiger moth]] (//Euplagia quadripunctaria//).
+==== ====
+Fifty years ago this species was even more restricted than the Scarlet Tiger,
+occurring only at one or two spots in South Devon,
+in addition to the Channel Islands from which it got its name.
+Like the Scarlet Tiger, the Jersey Tiger has also become much more common recently.
+Later the same afternoon, we spotted a different tiger-moth,
+this time the much more subdued [[https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/phragmatobia-fuliginosa/|Ruby Tiger moth]] (//Phragmatobia fuliginosa//),
+whose caterpillars I reared as a schoolboy in Portsmouth in the 1960's.
+The generic name (//Phragmatobia//)} implies that the moth likes damp places (it means living among reeds) --
+although there are no reeds at Bishop's Pond at present, they might well put in an appearance.
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