Big Pink Monster!

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Okay you amateur bugologists - just found this in the greenhouse a bit earlier on - excuse the bleary picture, but taken one handed on my haemorrhoid phone with no glasses! (in fact, you are seeing what the world looks like to me nowadays on a really good eye day

 

[MikeT]

This is an interesting moth, the elephant hawk moth Deilephila elpenor

It is normally found in parks and large gardens. It is probably the most spectacular moth found in the UK.

 

[badger65]

Elephant Hawk moth

 

[BeeJayBee]

Oooh, lucky you.

 

[juanito]

forum police.

Careful JBM,
The forum police will be after you !!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I think my employers may be asking some serious questions as to what I'm growing under glass if I bandy it around I've seen a big pink elephant flying around my greenhouse

 

[Dishmop]

..

 

[beecology]

Okay you amateur bugologists - just found this in the greenhouse a bit earlier on - excuse the bleary picture, but taken one handed on my haemorrhoid phone with no glasses! (in fact, you are seeing what the world looks like to me nowadays on a really good eye day

would have thought any countryman worth their salt would have known elephant hawk?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Don't do moths, never have.
But as a former Customs officer, i know an ar$ehole when I encounter one.

 

[beecology]

Don't do moths, never have.
But as a former Customs officer, i know an ar$ehole when I encounter one.

 

[REDWOOD]

I just thought of another use for the Daily Mail, swatting moths.