David
Element
Wildlife Photography and Digital
Video Images
______________________________________________________________________Moths
1 – Black Arches Moths
BLACK
ARCHES Lymantria monacha (m)
BLACK
ARCHES Lymantria monacha (m)
BLACK
ARCHES Lymantria monacha (m)
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In the opinion of the
author the Black Arches Lymantria monacha (Lymantriidae) is
one of the most beautifully marked British moths (although there are plenty of
other contenders). The first two photographs are of a freshly emerged specimen.
The more faded black markings on the moth in the final photograph may have been
due to natural variation or wear and tear.
RECOMMENDED
REFERENCES:
Please
note that the appearance of a reference title on this page is no guarantee that
any book will still be in print, and there may be later, more up-to-date
versions of these titles. Those with an interest in reference works are advised
to look out for new publications on-line, or those books being marketed by
specialist entomology bookshops.
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'The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain
and Ireland'
edited by A. Maitland Emmet, John Heath, Harley Books. Original artworks from this series may
still be available from Richard Lewington at: rlewington@btopenworld.com. A catalogue will be
provided by the artist on request.
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'Moths of the British Isles', Bernard Skinner,
Viking, 1984. ISBN 0-670-80354-5. Virtually comprehensive coverage of British
macro-moths with photographs of set specimens. Very useful.
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'British Pyralid
Moths - a Guide to their Identification', Barry Goater,
Harley Books, 1986. ISBN 0 946589 08 9. An important work.
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'Larger Moths of Surrey', Graham A. Collins,
Surrey Wildlife Trust, 1997. ISBN 0 9526065 2 6 - see: http://www.surreywildlifetrust.co.uk/ for further
information about the Surrey
Wildlife Atlas series.
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'The Hawkmoths of the Western Palearctic', A. R. Pittaway,
Harley Books, 1993. ISBN 0 946589 21 6.
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'Caterpillars of the British Isles', Jim Porter, Viking
1997. ISBN 0-670-87509-0. Most of the British macro-moth and butterfly larvae
have been photographed for this book.
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'British Wildlife', British Wildlife
Publishing. ISSN 0958-0956 contains regular moth reports - recommended.
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'Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain
and Ireland',
Paul Waring, Martin Townsend and Richard Lewington, British Wildlife
Publishing. ISBN 0 0531399 3 (HARDBACK); ISBN 0 9531399 1 3 (PAPERBACK), A new
guide to British Macro-moths containing over 1,600 superb illustrations of
moths in their natural resting positions by Richard Lewington. See: http://www.britishwildlife.com/html/books.html for further
information. Later versions will have more up-to-date coverage.
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'Moths of Trigon, Observations on a Dorset
Country Estate', Chris Manley, Pavonia Print,
2006, ISBN 0-9553302-0-3 (paperback): http://pavoniaprint.mysite.orange.co.uk/index.html . This book can only
be described as a labour of love. Despite the localised nature of the study an
extraordinarily high number of species have been recorded and photographed on
this Dorset estate including some spectacular rarities. The lavishly illustrated
colour plates will be a valuable reference for anyone with an interest in
British or northern European moths, in particular the micro-moths which have
only limited photographic material available in print. Chris is currently
working on a much larger work (see below) covering as much of the British
lepidoptera list as possible and this should be well worth waiting for as it
will contain a key list and illustrations of larvae, pyrales,
plume moths and butterflies as well as macro-moths! This book will be published
by A & C Black. Just for good measure Chris is also a very talented
sculptor of wildlife subjects!
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'British Moths and Butterflies',
Chris Manley, A&C Black/Christopher Helm ISBN 978-0-7136-4 (2008). Commissioned
from the author following the publication of the 'Moths of Trigon',
this ambitious project contains almost 2,400 photographs of live insects from
over 50 contributors including 850 macromoths, 500
micromoths, 74 butterflies and 314 larvae. This book is intended to appeal to a
wide audience including the non-expert and a second (extended) edition was
published in December 2010. The revised book also appears in digital format as
an application for iPod, iPhone and iPad devices (with
additional search facilities). The book includes a reference for this web site
but unfortunately the original (and now obsolete) URL was erroneously
reproduced in the original print run.
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Field Guide to the Micro-moths of Great
Britain and Ireland’ Phil Sterling and Mark
Parsons, illustrated by Richard Lewington, British Wildlife Publishing 2012
ISBN 978-0-9564902-1-6.
RECOMMENDED
WEBSITES:
- Moths and
Butterflies of Europe http://www.leps.it/ . This is a
marvellous reference site.
- Sphingidae of the Western
Palearctic http://tpittaway.tripod.com/sphinx/list.htm
- http://alpha.furman.edu/~snyder/leplist/macroleps1.htm contains many
illustrations of set North American moth species from the Furman University Collection of
North American Lepidoptera (Curator Prof. John Snyder).
- http://www.golddistel.de/homepage.htm contains a
selection of Natural History photographs by Ingrid Altmann,
including some nice illustrations of European moths (in German).
- http://www.ukmoths.force9.co.uk/ illustrates
numerous British moths.
- http://jeffhiggott.topcities.com/links.html contains images
of many UK Lepidoptera species.
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https://britishlepidoptera.weebly.com/ is an informative
site run by Chris Lewis illustrating British Lepidoptera with an
emphasis on illustrating anatomical details and assisting with identifications.
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