Mint Moth (Pyrausta aurata) – on hardy geranium.
Rear garden, June 2018. Nikon D7200 © Peter Hillman.
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Mint Moth (Pyrausta aurata) – on hardy geranium.
Rear garden, June 2018. Nikon D7200 © Peter Hillman.
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Your title kind of sounds like the title to a kids’ story or book. 🙂 I find the white center of the pretty amazing as it’s almost as if it is radiating light.
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These flowers have always come back every year since I moved here over 25 years ago. They flower through June then they finish. The bees love them, and so does the odd moth. They do kind of glow in the centre. Thank you, David 🙂
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Perfect combination. Wonderful photo!
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Thank you, Belinda 🙂
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Precious!
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🙂
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Stunning photo, Pete! Looks like the flower is glowing! 💜🌸👍
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Thank you, Jill 🙂 These are quite attractive flowers.
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Our geraniums and our pelargoniums are all pink! Lovely to see blue ones – as well as the moth.
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I have the pink ones growing, too and they tend to have a longer flowering season than these. Thank you, Anne 🙂
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Nice shot Pete, I would have tended to get in too close and miss the beauty of the flower.
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Thank you, Brian 🙂 I would have done closer and done the same but it was a stretch across the pond 🙂
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Wondeful shot!
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Thank you 🙂
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I wonder if it is the same moth species as was on my geranium (similar colour) – I’ll be posting it this week so look out for it. Unfortunately my photo is a lot more blurred than yours!
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NOT similar colour at all! Though I do have a geranium like this one. No, the moth(?) was visiting a pink geranium!!
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Beautiful
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Thank you 🙂
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Beautiful!!!
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Thank you, Anita 🙂
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