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--- news:2025:0719_tiger-moths [2025/07/22 20:39] – Richard White
+++ news:2025:0719_tiger-moths [2026/02/23 00:08] (current) – Richard White
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 ====== 19 Jul 2025: Tiger Moths! ======
-{{:news:2025:20250719-152454-5882-1080x810.jpg?400 |Jersey Tiger moth (//Euplagia quadripunctaria//)}}
+[{{: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,
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 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 at the base of a hazel bush,
+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 Jersey Tiger moth (//Euplagia quadripunctaria//).
+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//).
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 Fifty years ago this species was even more restricted than the Scarlet Tiger,
 occurring only at one or two spots in South Devon,
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 Like the Scarlet Tiger, the Jersey Tiger has also become much more common recently.
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-{{ :news:2025:1000012674-cropped.jpg?400|Ruby Tiger moth (//Phragmatobia fuliginosa//)}}
 Later the same afternoon, we spotted a different tiger-moth,
-this time the much more subdued Ruby Tiger moth (//Phragmatobia fuliginosa//),
+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//)} refers to a liking for reeds --
+The generic name (//Phragmatobia//)} implies that the moth likes damp places (it means living among reeds) --
-although there are none at Bishop's Pond at present, they might well put in an appearance.
+although there are no reeds at Bishop's Pond at present, they might well put in an appearance.
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