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Jul 05, 2016 04:59 |  #1

Found this on my garden fence, I haven't been able to identify it so any suggestions are welcome, I would guess some kind of moth.

It was busy scraping off tiny chips of paint to build it's cocoon.

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Building up one side:

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Jul 05, 2016 05:06 |  #2

Building the other side (this was about 8.30pm)

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Next morning it was all complete !

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I was disappointed that I missed the intermediate stages but I just didn't expect it to keep building overnight.
Now I can wait to see what comes out of it (it might be a long wait)



  
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Jul 05, 2016 07:25 |  #3

Nice shots of it building the cocoon.

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Jul 05, 2016 07:39 |  #4

Pretty cool

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Jul 05, 2016 11:14 |  #5

Interesting series!




  
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Jul 05, 2016 11:49 as a reply to  @ BlazinBob's post |  #6

calophasia lunula http://bugguide.net/no​de/view/797976/bgpage (external link) a moth

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Jul 05, 2016 13:09 as a reply to  @ dashotgun's post |  #7

Thankyou Dashotgun, I searched so many sites trying to find it but obviously not that one :rolleyes:
I recognise the moth, we do get a lot of those.

Thanks also to everyone for the comments.




  
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Jul 05, 2016 14:11 |  #8

Wonderful sequence of shots.

I have not seen this behavior before.

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