Reg-green Carpet

The Red-green Carpet is one of a small group of moths that flies as an adult in the Autumn then the females over winter prior to egg laying in the Spring. This individual is now quite worn but you can come across fresh looking specimens right through to Spring, compare with this specimen taken in February 2011. This is also a moth which has become increasingly common in Derbyshire in the last decade.

Red-green Carpet

First Red-green Carpet of the year.

A very nice specimen, apparently these are all females which over winter.

Red-green Carpet