OK. Your starter for 15 points : Identify this moth.
(The answer is not 'onion moth')
I thought it might have been a 'Silver Y', but it doesn't quite match.
Perhaps it's a 'poplar hawk moth', which research tells me should possibly be called a 'popular hawk moth'.
UK moths site
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'tis a hawk moth, quite possibly a poplar, as in the tree, or maybe a privet hawkmoth, as in the bush( not a private hawk moth as my research suggests).
I fear it may be dead.
:(
v
It was v.poorly when I found it, wet & possibly hassled by the cat, so I put it on an evening primrose flower in the sunshine, which perhaps revived it a bit, or hastened its demise.
at least it went happily & peacefully
v
:)
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