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hastingsmothman
@hastingsmothman@mastodon.green

UK. In a 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 I'm the beige. Diffident.
Natural world, running, mothing (spring/summer/autumn only), cryptic crosswording, British film circa 1930-1980, Shakespeare, local history, cooking. Ex-car driver/non-flyer (both an environmental impact choice). Now user of public transport, bicycle and legs. 
Passionate about nature and protecting the environment.


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Arrowhead shaped moth with a luxurious sage green & black mosaic marbling
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Me straining to lift my leg over a horizontal tree branch
hastingsmothman
@hastingsmothman@mastodon.green

Today's #MothOfTheDay might be a bit déja-vu. I showcased this a while back from a first brood but it was a fading specimen, and this second brood specimen is much brighter, and needed showing to the world!

CAMPION
Sideridis rivularis

Larvae feed on, yes, you guessed it, Campion

#moths #moth #mothsandbutterflies #butterflies #MothsMatter #nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #lepidoptera #entomology #insect #cute #garden #summer #conservation #biodiversity #alttext #pink #purple

Overhead shot of a 1.5cm triangular moth on a finger. It has very busy markings. Primarily dark chestnut and flecks of white with bright pink or light purple suffusion coming through in vague wavy lines. There are two dark teeth-shaped mark on the wings either side of the abdomen and just below these, nearer the outer edges is a mirror image stigmata which is made of two rectangles of chestnut edged in white. They are joined at one corner so it resembles an angled L, (i.e. the horizontal is straight but the vertical is angled at 45 degrees). It has two thin, wiry antannae
hastingsmothman
@hastingsmothman@mastodon.green

#MothOfTheDay is one of the Thorn moths, the autumnal leaf mimic that is

LUNAR THORN
Selenia lunularia

Quite common in extreme SE UK, but quite scarce elsewhere. Larvae feed on oak, birch, privet and damson

#moths #moth #mothsandbutterflies #butterflies #MothsMatter #nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #lepidoptera #entomology #insect #cute #garden #summer #conservation #biodiversity #alttext

Side on shot of a moth on a table. It holds its wings vertical above its abdomen. Its wings are heavily scalloped along the back edge. The moth is a pale autumnal orange, like a fading leaf. It has a darker orange band edged in brown running across its wing with two white moon shaped stigmata within the band, giving it its name, Lunar Thorn
hastingsmothman
@hastingsmothman@mastodon.green

🎵🎵 D'em bones, d'em bones...🎵🎵

Fascinating visit to the small but interesting St Leonard's Church crypt in Hythe yesterday, one of only two ossuaries in the UK. Stacks and stacks of bones and shelves and shelves of skulls, as well as cabinets showing certain jaws and pelvises and other skeletal parts with interesting injuries, malformations or work related influences.

Fridge magnet was a required purchase.

#skeleton #bones #skull #church #ossuary #history #heritage #culture #alttext

Shelves with neatly arranged skulls. Most are facing forward. Some are slightly angled and one on the bottom shelf is facing left to show a hole. A stack of thousands of limb bones, about 6ft high stretching all the way down the side of a crypt from front to back. There is the odd skull with the stack. At the back of the crypt there is a triangular window high up with a grid of iron across it. A close up of a skull wedged within a stack of limb bones. It is centred and faces directly to the camera.
hastingsmothman
@hastingsmothman@mastodon.green

#MothOfTheDay is a tiny but pretty micromoth.

Carcina quercana
(Long-horned, flat body)

As the 'quercana' name obviously suggests, its larvae feed on oak. It is common and widespread in the UK.

#moths #moth #mothsandbutterflies #butterflies #MothsMatter #nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #lepidoptera #entomology #insect #garden #summer #conservation #biodiversity #alttext

A small 0.5cm moth on a wooden table. It is a rounded arrowhead / triangular shape with soft corners. It is brown suffused with purple, with a pale and indistinct splodge on the back which resembles a paw print. The wing edge has two distinct yellow sections. Two thin opposing shoulder stripes near the top, and then two opposing rectangular notches about two-thirds down joined by a yellow edge that runs down the rest of the wing, across the bottom and up the other side to the opposing notch. It's like a yellow U shape with two square notches facing inwards at either end. The bottom wing edge (termen) is very fringed. It has two extremely long thing antennae which stretch back and are as long as its body, if not a little more.
hastingsmothman
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Very occasionally I post something that is of no educational value and is of no interest to anyone other than myself. This is such a post.

In between work, today I have been mostly making a #vegan sweet potato and aubergine tagine with warming ras al hanut spice and sweet dates, Ethiopian fossolia beans, and cous cous infused with rose harissa and olive oil. What are you having for #dinner?

#food #foodporn #healthyeating #homecooking #recipe #tagine #veganfood #alttext

Overhead shot of a plate of food in three parts. To the top right a pile of cous cous flecked with harissa spice. Bottom right are green beans and onions that have a rosemary, cumin, turmeric and nigella seed blend. Top left is a tagine stew, deep orange with chunks of sweet potato, aubergine, chickpeas and dates.