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Magpie Moth

Abraxas grossulariata

Photo by Lipase
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Field Notes

Description:

this one wasn't very lively and I noticed it had a potion of wing missing (did i do this?!). found in gorse. On the nbngateway site this species seems very common around here: http://www.searchnbn.net/interactive/map.jsp?srchSp=NBNSYS0000005975

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Species ID Suggestions

Magpie

Abraxas grossulariata

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Jopy
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Comments (2)
injica
wonderful :) never saw any geometridae that interesting!
Lipase
Thanks Jopy for the ID, again it looks very similar

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PublishedJuly 28, 2013

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