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Kildale
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:19 am Post subject: Small, very small, moth.
This moth is about the size of the width of your little fingers finger nail, about 3/8 inch. Pretty colors, colours for our european friends.Carcina quercana, Oak-skeletonizer moth. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden ) _________________ Have a look at MY NATURE SITE

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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:50 am Post subject:
What a pretty thing your moth is - it looks as though it's wearing a fur coat. We have tiny moths here too but none as attractive as yours. _________________

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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:40 am Post subject:
Oak-skeletonizer? Sounds ominous! But it's so sweet and furry-looking. _________________ The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. -Bertrand Russell

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Looks very fashionable, nice close-up Kildale. _________________ Do you have plant knowledge? Share it on GardenStew PLANTS

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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:54 am Post subject:
Well.. skeletonizing an oak sounds like a big job for such a tiny fellow! Thanks Kildale -- he's great looking and it's fun to see insects that I've never seen before. _________________ Daisybeans/MaryAnn "Once the relation between poetry and the soil is well established in the mind, all growing things are endowed with more than material beauty." -Elizabeth Lawrence

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