Tony James' photos with the keyword: 1634

The adults of this species are beautifully marked, and the orange hind-winged males fly in sunlight searching out the newly emerged females using their sensitive antennae to detect the female's pheramones. They can be detected up to 3Km from the source, and any virgin female is quickly found and mated. After coupling, the females fly through the night to lay their eggs across the moorland that they frequent.

The caterpillars of the UK's only Silk-moth are quite handsome animals, with their black circlets over their dark green bodies. There are a variety of colours to the hair tubercles, ranging from lilac-pink, to cream, or white. The black and dark green can sometimes merge patchily breaking up the usual pattern which is seen here.