Small butterfly looking like a piece of wood ash.

[Neil Jones]

newsmail at meyershouse.org.uk (Simon) wrote in message news:<611c69c9.0405261017.2bf4a32 at posting.google.com>...
> neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk (Neil Jones) wrote in message news:<ec667a8f.0405231349.4788d880 at posting.google.com>...
> > newsmail at meyershouse.org.uk (Simon) wrote in message news:<611c69c9.0405191211.3ee9ce8d at posting.google.com>...
>  
> > 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.
> 
> When I said folded, I meant folded upright together, as per butterfly.
> When I blew on it gently from behind it opened it's wings down in the
> same way a butterfly would.  Tried to get a photo on the digital camera
> but unfortunately it's far too inadequate for that.
> 
> I still think it's a butterfly but I couldn't find anything that looked
> like it in any of our books here.
Actually even a bad photo might help identify it.

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