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BLACK ARCHES Lymantria monacha

BUTTONED SNOUT Hypaena rostralis LACE BORDER Scopula ornata GOTHIC MOTH Naenia typica

CINNABAR Tyria jacobaeae

GREY DAGGER Acronicta psi agg.

HUMMINGBIRD HAWK MOTH Macroglossum stellatarum

RECOMMENDED REFERENCES:

'THE MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND' ONGOING SERIES EDITED BY A. MAITLAND EMMET, JOHN HEATH, HARLEY BOOKS. Original artworks from this series are currently available from Richard Lewington at: rlewington@btopenworld.com. A catalogue will be provided by the artist on request.

'MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES', BERNARD SKINNER, VIKING, 1984. ISBN 0-670-80354-5. Virtually comprehensive coverage of British macro-moths with photographs of set specimens. Very useful.

'BRITISH PYRALID MOTHS - A GUIDE TO THEIR IDENTIFICATION', BARRY GOATER, HARLEY BOOKS, 1986. ISBN 0 946589 08 9. An important work.

'LARGER MOTHS OF SURREY', GRAHAM A. COLLINS, SURREY WILDLIFE TRUST, 1997. ISBN 0 9526065 2 6 - see: http://www.surreywildlifetrust.co.uk/ for further information about the Surrey Wildlife Atlas series.

'THE HAWKMOTHS OF THE WESTERN PALEARCTIC', A. R. PITTAWAY, HARLEY BOOKS, 1993. ISBN 0 946589 21 6

'CATERPILLARS OF THE BRITISH ISLES', JIM PORTER, VIKING 1997. ISBN 0-670-87509-0. Most of the British macro-moth and butterfly larvae have been photographed for this book.

'BRITISH WILDLIFE', BRITISH WILDLIFE PUBLISHING. ISSN 0958-0956 contains regular moth reports - recommended.

'FIELD GUIDE TO THE MOTHS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND', PAUL WARING, MARTIN TOWNSEND AND RICHARD LEWINGTON, BRITISH WILDLIFE PUBLISHING. ISBN 0 0531399 3 (HARDBACK); ISBN 0 9531399 1 3 (PAPERBACK), A new guide to British Macro-moths containing over 1,600 superb illustrations of moths in their natural resting positions by Richard Lewington. See: http://www.britishwildlife.com/html/books.html for further information.

'MOTHS OF TRIGON, OBSERVATIONS ON A DORSET COUNTRY ESTATE', CHRIS MANLEY, PAVONIA PRINT, 2006, ISBN 0-9553302-0-3 (PAPERBACK): http://pavoniaprint.mysite.orange.co.uk/index.html . This book can only be described as a labour of love. Despite the localised nature of the study an extraordinarily high number of species have been recorded and photographed on this Dorset estate including some spectacular rarities. The lavishly illustrated colour plates will be a valuable reference for anyone with an interest in British or northern European moths, in particular the micro-moths which have only limited photographic material available in print. Chris is currently working on a much larger work (see below) covering as much of the British lepidoptera list as possible and this should be well worth waiting for as it will contain a key list and illustrations of larvae, pyrales, plume moths and butterflies as well as macro-moths! This book will be published by A & C Black. Just for good measure Chris is also a very talented sculptor of wildlife subjects - his work may be seen at: http://www.manle.freeserve.co.uk/ .

'BRITISH MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES', CHRIS MANLEY, A&C BLACK/CHRISTOPHER HELM, FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION, DUE NOVEMBER 2008. Commissioned from the author following the publication of the 'Moths of Trigon', this ambitious project will contain over 2,250 photographs of live insects from over 50 contributors including 850 macromoths, 500 micromoths, 74 butterflies, 315 larvae and a selection of over 50 non-lepidopteran species from other Orders for comparison. This book is intended to appeal to a wide audience including the non-expert.

RECOMMENDED WEBSITES:

MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES OF EUROPE http://www.leps.it/ . This is a marvellous reference site.

SPHINGIDAE OF THE WESTERN PALEARCTIC http://tpittaway.tripod.com/sphinx/list.htm

http://alpha.furman.edu/~snyder/leplist/macroleps1.htm contains many illustrations of set North American moth species from the Furman University Collection of North American Lepidoptera (Curator Prof. John Snyder).

http://www.golddistel.de/homepage.htm contains a selection of Natural History photographs by Ingrid Altmann, including some nice illustrations of European moths (in German).