Cats likely to be Yellow barred Brindle Acasis viretata.

Grammodes bifasciata, Erebidae. Noctuelle de la salsepareille.

M.

That's the Black Arches Lymantria monachaGuy.

M.

I suspect these are caterpillars of the Antler moth Cerapteryx graminis, which can occur in plague numbers on northern upland pastures, sometimes denuding hillsides of grass. This can lead to starvation or disease and, I daresay, intervention of the upland graziers.

M.

If I was on holiday in Bulgaria I'd say mannii. I'm just a little unsure of that forewing discal spot. Over to the experts....

M

Very interesting Mike. I hadn't expected any until April this year. I haven't even seen a Peacock yet!

M.

This beauty was nectaring on Seaside Daisy on the Southbourne cliffs, Bournemouth on 16th October, and is by a counry mile my favourite of the year.

I've just been looking at your Greek lizards and I'd say the green-backed individual is the Balkan Wall Lizard Podarcis tauricus ionicus' The very dark one (the lighting is unhelpful) is probably a female Peloponnese Wall Lizard.

M

Looks like one of the many forms of the extremely variable larva of the Scarce Bordered Straw Helicoverpa armigera'

M

I refer you to the illustration on page 145 of the Field Guide to the Micro Moths of Great Britain and Ireland.

M.

Certainly beetle larvae. I wonder if they could be the Rock-rose Pot Beetle, Cryptocephalus primarius a very rare species but which has been found in unprecedented numbers this year. It might be worth contactng coleoptera.org.uk. Over to you for further research!


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I fear this is one of the dreaded "micros", Sylvie; almost certainly the Parsnip Moth Depressaria radiella. It is one of a number of species that feed on the flowers of various umbellifers.

M.

My guess is a male Vapourer moth cocoon.

M

Most probably Enoplognatha ovata form ovata, Common Candy-striped spider. There is a rarer similar species that can't be excluded.

The skipper you thought might be orbed red underwing is not a Spialia . I do not claim any great expertise in Pyrgus , but I think you have Sandy Grizzled Skipper here Pyrgus cinarae . Your possible Idas look good,but it's useful to know that this Balkan race, now known as ssp. baldur , is apparentl...

Dave, I would take issue with your remark that Clouded Yellows rarely make it throgh the winter in any of their stages. Since I had the opportunity to monitor the deveelopment of larvae through the winter of 1998 - 1999, and the subsequent emergence of adults beginning 26 March 1999, overwintering h...

Search large heath guardian for some good news.

M.

Moths and butterflies of Europe www.leps.it lists Sea buckthorn as a larval foodplant.

M

10 Jan 2020 This afternoon I found a barely half grown Painted Lady caterpillar on Echium pininana in the Boscombe cliff gardens above Honeycombe (sic) chine. I had earlier found a virtually fully grown larva on this food-plant on 3 November. This Echium is one of several gigantic species endemic to...

As Wurzel says, it is a case of a Psychidae a family regarded as microlepidopterous in GB but often placed among the macros in Europe. Yours looks very like the case of Psyche casta, a very common species in this country.
See: http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Psyche_Casta.

M.