This moth is called Buff Arches. Some poor entomologist found this and was so dead inside he came up with that name. I would have called it The Bloody Amazing. Maybe he/she had seen much better and was a bit desensitised to such wonder, or maybe it's the entomologist's version of a cry for help. Photos can't show the shimmer of all that gold sadly.
I keep coming back to look at this one, showing it to friends etc. It's blown my mind a bit.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
I think that one is really going to take some beating as my favourite moth so far. This plume of hot southern air in the next few might bring something interesting with it though. If there's any chance of a Death's Head Hawkmoth turning up it will be this week. It's cold again tonight though and I'm not expecting much.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
That looks like a very fresh swallow tail. It's got perfect markings.
I had a bit of variety last night despite the temperature dropping nearly to single figures. The only new one was the more subtle cousin of the Buff Arches above, the Light Arches: Proof if ever it was needed that moth namers really ran out of ideas at some point.
and a Garden Pebble that I thought was new but it turns out I found one a few years ago and forgot about it.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Has everyone got their traps out? The temperature is slowly dropping here but should stay promisingly high overnight. I don't think conditions are going to get much better for trapping than this so fingers crossed for some interesting visitors
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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I woke her her up when I was watering 🙂
Failure is always an option.