Bena bicolorana
A most attractive bright green moth with two thin parallel diagonal pale lines. Wingspan 40 to 48mm.
The caterpillar feeds on oak.
Adults fly June to July, and is attracted to light and comes to sugar. Found in broadleaved woodland and parkland. Locally widespread in England and Wales, up as far as Cumbria and Yorkshire.
July 2013, rear garden, Staffordshire. Nikon Coolpix P500. © Pete Hillman 2013.
Nature Journeys 
They are hard to see since they are greenish. We have it in Sweden but for some reason it’s a threaten art in Finland
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The lines on the wings look like veins in the leaves. A very attractive moth.
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Green may be my favorite color, and this shade is gorgeous. It’s almost a celedon. If I repaint my living room, I might take your pretty little moth down to the paint store and have them color match my paint to it with their computer!
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Lol! 🙂 Thank you for your lovely comment. It is indeed a beautiful shade of green.
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Thanks for sharing these detailed photos of God’s creatures. I never saw a more beautiful moth.
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Thank you, Alan 🙂
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Beautiful images, Pete.
(do you have a photographic memory by any chance? your knowledge seems unlimited on the nature subjects you photograph 🙂 I have enough trouble remembering 100 birds and about 200 hundred flowering plants 🙂 )
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Thank you, Vicki 🙂 I wish I did have a photographic memory, but I don’t. I still have to reference some things, and I have a good few books here to help me so.
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Lovely ‘creamy’ moth!!
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Thank you 🙂
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