By Mark Snowden

This is a lovely photograph of well-grown larva of the poplar hawkmoth, the only hawkmoth we seem to have up here on a regular basis. You can see the distinctive yellow-striped ‘horn’ at it’s tail end which is diagnostic (with the rest of body pattern).  It is not usually so destructive as the puss moth on our native aspens.

This Lime speck Pug moth was caught in a moth trap at Clachtoll by Fiona Phipps. It was caught on 24th June 2009.