Sorry. My cupboard is almost empty, although I ran the trap last night and hope to find a few inhabitants there when it gets light enough to use the camera. Roll on the end of British Summer Time.
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Some moths at last
This blog is in danger of breaching the Trades Descriptions Act - my fascination with locusts and allied grasshoppers, not to mention jellyfish, means that a moth hasn't appeared here for nearly two weeks.
Sorry. My cupboard is almost empty, although I ran the trap last night and hope to find a few inhabitants there when it gets light enough to use the camera. Roll on the end of British Summer Time.
Anyway, here is a moth - a sad one because it got caught in a spider's web in our kitchen where Penny saw it dangling like a grisly victim of an execution. Another example of Nature's unsentimental world.
Also on moths, the Guardian has had one of its occasional fits of excitement and asked me to write a comment piece on a recent spate of interesting immigrant species, including the lovely Crimson Speckled which I saw in France and featured on the blog back in August. Here are my bon mots, along with a startling and entertaining thread of readers' views.
Sorry. My cupboard is almost empty, although I ran the trap last night and hope to find a few inhabitants there when it gets light enough to use the camera. Roll on the end of British Summer Time.
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3 comments:
I must ask, since its hangin' around, have you managed to identify the moth? It reminds me of a Convulvulous Hawk-moth!
Hi Bill
Sorry, I couldn't - I didn't get anything to scale and it's way smaller than the C Hawk, I'm afraid. Some sort of Drab or similarly unfortunately-named type, I think. I'll send a copy to Charlie Fletcher, our county moth recorder who knows everything, and report back
all v best
M
Hello again!
I just tried this on Charlie but it's too far gone even for him.
A Rustic of some sort maybe?
RIP anyway
M
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