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Pale Tussock moth apparently. 1st one I've ever seen!
[url= https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3921/15208657378_8050b72c8e.jp g" target="_blank">https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3921/15208657378_8050b72c8e.jp g"/> [/img][/url][url= https://flic.kr/p/paWkYE ]Pale Tussock moth caterpillar[/url] by [url= https://www.flickr.com/people/7904024@N08/ ]jimmyg352[/url], on Flickr
Last seen whizzing up a tree in Boroughbridge. 8)
Friend of mine posted a vid of one of those very blighters squiggling across her lawn earlier today!
The warm summer does seem to be bringing out some interesting bugs this year.
We saw a large insect the other day that flew like a hummingbird and had a long proboscis that it was sticking into the flowers. It was perhaps an inch to 1.5 inches long.
And I got buzzed by a hornet yesterday afternoon; well I think it was a hornet!
We saw a large insect the other day that flew like a hummingbird and had a long proboscis that it was sticking into the flowers. It was perhaps an inch to 1.5 inches long.
That'll be a Hummingbird Hawk-moth, then. Lucky to see one, I've not seen one in decades.
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