creatures of the night

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When night was finished, in the morning I got an 'aftertaste' - two big beautiful night moths stayed at my room. THey didnt enjoy sun very much, but, more or less, were willing to pose me (not 100% helpful and tractable, but at least they didnt fly away into the blue sky momentarily!) So, I got a few decent shots to share.

I had no idea about iD, but received a helping hand from UK and Germany almost momentarily.
So, the 1st one is Staurophora celsia - thanks to faltermann@faltermann for iD. (Russian name is 'Совка роскошная').

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This one had very exclusive, unique, delicate pastel-fistachio-green coat.

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Cya, my amazing guest! Will I see one day another one like you? Nobody knows!


My second guest maybe was less fancy in terms of his outlook, but still very nice. I spent 60 mins trying to find iDs for both, but unsuccessful... there are so many species out there!

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upd. the 2nd one is Frosted Orange (Gortyna flavago), a huge thanks goes to dannewton@dannewton for correct iD! you may find intresting his story about Creating a Moth Trap for massive local area moth explorations.

location: Russian countryside August 2020 natural light
camera/lens: Canon 5D Sigma 150mm raw-conv

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