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Boterbloempje/Speckled yellow/Pseudopanthera macularia, 25 April 2025

This picture is of three family heirloom tools with a bit of history to them.

Whilst recently cleaning out my father’s shed I found the spanner on the left of the picture. I have happy memories of this spanner as, due to its unique design, its jaws open a whopping 26mm. In comparison, a more conventional adjustable spanner of the same length only opens 14mm. This different design, coupled with youthful enthusiasm, allowed me to attempt to undo fasteners well beyond the capacity of the device or any other tool in my father’s very limited collection of tools. A lack of tools was always a frustration for me, something that I have probably overcompensated for ever since.

While still in primary school & armed with this spanner, I would cannibalise parts off old dumped cars in local paddocks. To overcome the minor issue that the spanner was only 4 inches long, I put a length of tube over the handle to greatly increase the leverage. Even with my limited strength, I managed to considerably bend the adjustable jaw of the spanner. This was still the condition in which I found it in Dad’s shed and therefore it seems unlikely to have been used since those days.

I have since repaired the damage as it is now shown in the picture. On searching antique tool collectors forums, it appears that, at the time of this spanner’s design, they were often incorporated into the little tool kits you get with a new car or motor bike. It seems likely that the spanner came with my father’s BSA Bantam motor bike that he bought in the 1950s and was the only motorised transportation my parents had when they married.

The middle bicycle box spanner was given to me when I started bike racing at 13 years of age. The spanner had belonged to my father’s older brother and was most likely used to tighten the wheels on his bike that he used to ride in the Austral Wheelrace in 1938.

The third tool in the picture is a pair of pliers that my maternal grandmother gave to me when I first started playing around with electronics during my primary school years. The pliers measure only 110mm from top to bottom which is small and not a general use tool. My Grandmother told me at the time that the pliers had belonged to her brother Percy and that he had brought them back from WWI. An interesting fact is that the pliers were manufactured by a company called P.L. Schmidt founded in Germany in 1790. According to correspondence with the present day company, these pliers could have been manufactured between 1900 and 1943. This clearly covers the time of WWI but how they came to be in the ownership of an Australian veteran is unknown.

Für diesen Schmetterling liegen aus Sachsen nur sehr wenige Fundmeldungen vor, was nicht verwunderlich ist, denn er ist in der Roten Liste Sachsen als akut vom Austerben bedroht in der Kategorie 1 eingeordnet. Die Falter fliegen in einer Generation von März bis Juni.

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Nuts and bolts and tools in blue light.

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The read wall of my mother's summerhouse in Värmdö, Sweden made for a nicely contrasing background for this white geometrid moth with a boring name. Say hello to the plain wave (Idaea straminata).

This re-panelled and updated Volvo B58 was in its final month with Astons, and was about to be sold to Catterall's at Southam, together with the RDU 4 plate. But Astons re-acquired the plate in late 1987 (by this time from a Scottish operator), and it went on to be worn by 12 fleet members over many years.

It had been new as VNK 879M to Keith Spanner's Diadem Coaches from St Albans.

Trafford Wharf Road, Trafford Park, 23/3/85

Double-striped pug, zwartkamdwergspanner (Gymnoscelis rufifasciata)

I recently posted a shot of a moth over on Reddit and linked to it here on Flickr. This led to a moth fan named Diana there to sign up on Flickr - just to give my photo a like!

This is why I thought it would fit with a little more moths in the feed here, right?

This one is a large twin-spot carpet (Xanthorhoe quadrifasiata) which has a lovely "surprised" look on it's face.

I noticed a squeaking sound and found that the upper two nuts had worked loose. The lower nuts had rusted firmly in place.

4mm to 6mm (0.16" to 0.24") and 34mm (1.34") sockets, representing the smallest and largest in my metric socket collection.

Lignyoptera fumidaria (Hübner, [1825])
Geometroidea▸Geometridae▸Ennominae▸Lithinini

"Steppen-Frostspanner" / "Rauch-Herbstspanner" (DE)

Photo captured in the wild, under natural light, in Austria.

Only 4 items got used on the shoot, best being prepared. .. .
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Hartheu-Spanner (Siona lineata)

...ein 'Schneespanner' ?!? im Palettenbeet

Schmetterlinge&Motten ↵

Toolbox with tools on white isolated background. 3d

Schwarzgesäumter Besenginsterspanner
(Frosted Yellow)
Flügelspannweite waren knapp 30mm, die ♂ erkennt man an den gekämmten Fühlern ;-)
Typisch sind die weißen Längsstreifen auf den Hinterflügelunterseiten.
Gehört zu den gefährdeten Arten (RL3).
TK5809/1 Treis-Karden

This geometrid moth is known as the yellow shell (Camptogramma bilineata).

I found it hanging out on the white-painted railing of my mother-in-law's front porch in early August (of 2023).

For a shot showing it absolutely straight from the front, please have a look at part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/54218842348/