Triodia sylvina – This is from a primitive moth group called Hepialidae, which contains just 5 species found in the British Isles. The adults cannot feed for they have no functional proboscis. The images featured are that of the male. The sexes look quite different from one another.
Copyright: Peter Hillman
Camera used: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ38
Date taken: 2nd August 2011
Place: Attracted to moth trap, rear garden, Staffordshire
Nature Journeys 
This surprised me. When I read ‘swift,’ I expected to see a bird — although the thought of an orange swift/bird seemed a little strange. This is a pretty one.
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They are pretty, and I have yet to see one since I snapped these photos all those years ago.
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Fancy haircut!
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That was exactly my thought!
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Great minds think alike! 😉
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That’s a nice one!
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Thank you, Brian 🙂 That was the first and last time I saw one of these beauties.
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They have such spectacularly useless legs as well!
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Lovely colour and detail. Sounds like a short lifespan for these moths.
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Thank you, Belinda. Yes, the adults only have one thing to concentrate on and that is producing the next generation. After that they all die out.
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Short life and no feeding. Bummer. I guess living for sex isn’t the worst thing. 🙂
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I guess not 🙂
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These could almost be mistaken for a leaf or a dried up rusty old teabag, but the white X is very distinctive, and more beautiful fringing too.
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I have to say the rusty old teabag description really made me smile 🙂
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