Bedstraw Hawks Hyles gallii

[P. Stadel Nielsen]

Michael Pennington <pennington-macleod at zetnet.co.uk> wrote:

>Anyone else in Britain or northern Europe seeing this moth. About 16
>have been in Shetland in the last three weeks - an exceptional number.

>Mike Pennington, Shetland

A few specimens have also been found here in Denmark the last 3 weeks.
I had a female in my garden here 15 km north of Copenhagen and tried
to get ova. Either it was not mated or had already laid all its eggs,
as she laid nothing at all. Usually it is quite easy to get eggs.
Usually we get gallii from Sweden or Germany in June and August, as
our resident gallii flies mainly in July.

Per Stadel Nielsen
<fdki at post2.tele.dk>
Skovskellet 35 A
DK - 2840 Holte
Denmark

http://home2.inet.tele.dk/fdki
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Per Stadel Nielsen
<fdki at post2.tele.dk>
Skovskellet 35 A
DK - 2840 Holte
Denmark

http://home2.inet.tele.dk/fdki
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"All butterflies must have happy homes"
(L.G. Higgins)