Pink & Lime-Green Elephants

[Dewi]

Spent the day in the heart of Snowdonia at Plas Tan-Y-Bwlch in Maentwrog. Highlight of the organised day out looking for the wildlife that inhabit this special area were the Elephant Hawk-moths Deilephila elpenor caught in the moth traps. They are stunning looking creatures and it was really great to get up close to these wonderful moths.

Elephant Hawk-moth.


More moths and other small creatures to come later.....

[Richprins]

Spent the day in Plas Tan-Y-Bwlch in Maentwrog.

If you say so!

Is that somewhere in "Middle Earth"?

Beware the forces of Rohan!

[Dewi]

It's just up the road from Penrhyndeudraeth RP.

[Toko]

Does not look like an elephant

[Dewi]

I never said it did Toko.

Continuing with the same colour scheme, the Foxgloves were glistening with drops of rain after a heavy downpour.

[Lisbeth]

I did not know that there were such beautiful elep...sorry moths in Europe and even in the same colour scheme as the flowers. Very special

[Dewi]

Lis, they feed exclusively on Great and Rosebay Willowherbs, so if you find the plants, you have a good chance of seeing them this time of year.

[Dewi]

This Buff-tip Moth Phalera bukephala uses it's camouflage to make it look like a broken Birch twig.

[Lisbeth]

This afternoon I made a post about biodiversity and this is a perfect example. If the Great and Rosebay Willowherbs disappear, the moth will disappear too and who knows what else

[Lisbeth]

That one certainly looks like a twig