Moth Identification

[Sarah B]

Wondering whether anyone could help me in identifying this moth that I spotted on a beach in the Gower, South Wales.
Appears to be similar to a 5 spot Burnet, but had light green wings instead of black.

Any info would be great !!. 47

[Mrs Blorenge]

It's a 6 spot Burnet moth. :)

[Izzy and the Lizard King]

Coincidently, we saw several of these at a cache we found yesterday and we agree with MrsB.



https://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/657ff1c2-029b-4a4c-a006-958bf7d74b77.jpg


We found ukmoths.org.uk very useful in identifying it. http://ukmoths.org.uk/keywordsearch.php

[Sarah B]

Thanks for the info, notice that the six spot burnet that Izzy and the Lizard King spotted had black wings- the one that I saw had bright green - is this normal ( maybe a young one ?)

[LoisInTheForest]

I caught these on the way to hide my Lakeland Plastic cache in Ringwood. I wondered what they were!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2455/3735388459_bdb4e70e75.jpg