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I found five of these moths between a tree and a hedgerow in my garden. Three were on a Goldenrod and two on an adjacent Ragwort. Neither plant was flowering.

The moths were very widely-spaced on each plant and their tiny body size meant that getting two or three in focus didn't work quite well enough. Some of these images are crops from the group shots. Also, the direction of light on the moths greatly affects how the colours show, the last two images giving examples. Sometimes single flash gun was better than my usual two.

The antennae of males are extremely long, making framing quite an issue.

The family is very primitive, the only Lepidopteran one with chewing mouthparts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropterigidae

This assemblage dispersed as I photographed them and I have not seen them again.

Last year I saw huge numbers of the dark green Adela reaumurella on the leaves of friends' fruit trees.

EM-1, Kiron 105 at f16, TTL flash, hand-held.

Harold



© Harold Gough 2016





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Edited on Jun 14, 2016 at 12:54 AM · View previous versions



Jun 14, 2016 at 12:49 AM
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Two more of same individual in same position.

Harold



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© Harold Gough 2016




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Lovely captures Harold
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Jun 14, 2016 at 01:19 AM
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LordV wrote:
Lovely captures Harold
Brian v.


Thanks, Brian.

Surprisingly, I never properly saw the moment of any of them launching into flight. I would like to know how they cope with the drag on those long antennae.

Harold



Jun 14, 2016 at 01:53 AM





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