Small butterfly looking like a piece of wood ash.

[Neil Jones]

newsmail at meyershouse.org.uk (Simon) wrote in message news:<611c69c9.0405191211.3ee9ce8d at posting.google.com>...
> I've just discovered a small butterfly on my desk, grey white wings
> with a small brown spot mid wing and a black leading edge and face. 
> The insect is 10 - 12 mm long wings are folded, but I'd guess wingspan
> about 20 - 25 mm.  It looks jst like a small triangular piece of wood
> / charcoal ash.  Anybody got any ideas what it is?
> 
> (I'm in the UK, North East Wales)

Well I don't think it is a butterfly. If the wings are folded down
across the body rather than held upright closed against each other it
almost certainly is a moth. Your description isn't like any species of
butterfly that occurs in the UK. I am in South Wales.


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"At some point I had to stand up and be counted. Who speaks for the
butterflies?" Andrew Lees - The quotation on his memorial at Crymlyn
Bog
National Nature Reserve.

 
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