Can anyone identify this 'insect'?

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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on July 27, 2013 at 19:53

We get these as well. I love them but have no idea what they are either! 

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on July 27, 2013 at 20:13

I think it's a plume moth of some sort....maybe this one.

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Permalink Reply by dont want to give name on July 28, 2013 at 2:02

these little chaps look a bit like an areoplane with their wide wingspan i have seen them in N8 too...

they are better than mosquiotes who buzz buzz buzz in your ear when you are drifting off to sleep, rain brings the mosquitos out i think perhaps?

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Permalink Reply by Saddic on July 28, 2013 at 8:33

Oh, you are a clever man, Hugh; gottit!  It's an Emmelina monodactyla.

And thost tail things are it's third pair of legs tucked neatly back to confuse me.

Have a good Sunday

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Permalink Reply by VIX on July 28, 2013 at 9:24

We've had those in our house, it's a moth?..

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Permalink Reply by Peter L. Bailey on July 30, 2013 at 16:17

I love these. I always call them Ghost Moths but no idea where I got that idea from...! They're good listeners too.

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