
Map-winged Swift
The females are duller with broad grey-brown bands across the forewings. When at rest their elongated wings are held almost vertically against their body.
The adults have short antennae and have no functioning mouthparts so cannot feed. The caterpillars can be found from June to late the following May, overwintering twice as larvae so the life cycle takes two years to complete.
Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) and probably other herbs and grasses.
Open woodland and scrubby areas as well as Bracken-covered slopes on heathland and rough grassland.
Gold Swift (male) by Bernard Ruelle
Gold Swift (male) by Bernard Ruelle
Gold Swift - Koen Thonissen
Koen Thonissen
Gold Swift - Koen Thonissen
Koen Thonissen
Gold Swift (male) - Ben Sale
Ben Sale
Gold Swift (female) - Ben Sale
Ben Sale