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What do the moths look like?


Chrissie

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Has anyone got a photo (or a link to one) showing the moth of the processional caterpillar?

I always thought they were light beige with a few brown edge bits, but this year the garden is full of foxy-brown moths/butterflies with a coloured spot on each wing.  I don't want to harm them if they are something else.  But if they ARE the processional caterpillar moths, we are in for a bumper crop of the dreadful things[+o(]

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Chrissie, the difference between moths and butterflies is the way the wings fold. Butterflies fold their wings up whereas moths fold them flat in a delta pattern.

Oak and pine processionary catapillars [+o(] time to get out the long reach pruners [6]

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Chrissie, the difference between moths and butterflies is the way the wings fold. Butterflies fold their wings up whereas moths fold them flat in a delta pattern.

Oak and pine processionary catapillars [+o(] time to get out the long reach pruners [6]

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Not all moths fold up their wings and some do amazing fold ups - check out a close up of a Plume Moth.

Pine processionary caterpillars are beautiful and should be left alone.

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