Wednesday 13 July 2022

Bulgaria, July 2022, Moths and Butterflies

I was hoping to have a couple of days to catch up with the butterfly and moths identifications from Bulgaria but have come home to a heat wave with up to 600 moths a night in the Old Vic trap. I've run out of time and back to work tomorrow and also will be moth trapping on the North Downs for the next couple of nights so I am quite literally drowning in identifications and recording at the moment. So here's a quick dump of a few of the highlights (with provisional ids) from Bulgaria and will add identifications and additional species as soon as things cool off a bit. 

Marbled Fritillary
Bedstraw and Spurge Hawkmoth
Oak Hawkmoth
The distinctive Eutelia adulatrix (above and below)


I'm going for Sulphur Pearl on this 
Carposina scirrhosella
Always wanted to see one of these, Cynaeda dentalis from the Kamen Bryag steppe

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