Carpets and Arches

A pretty collection of Carpet moths for you this morning - Scorched, Least and Red or Dark-barred Twin Spot. The last prompted a friend to exclaim: 'Missoni!', a type of closely-striped dress which I have to admit was new to me, but which I will now add to my rather hackneyed and often-repeated references to Laura Ashley which accompany pictures of graceful, floaty Waves and suchlike moths

The moth above might well inspire a dress designer too; it's a Yellowtail seen from the opposite end of its body; while below is a sequence of pictures of one of my great favourites, that arch-Dazzle camouflage beauty, the Black Arches. Like the zebra, which we all love so much from youngest childhood onwards, this moth is a stunning example of the beauty of pure black alongside pure white.

Elsewhere in the trap, the Thorns have been starting to arrive over the last couple of weeks, a moth which I associate with Autumn although actually its August Thorn species, of which this is an example, is a reminder that we have plenty of Summer left.

Next, some pictures showing the continuing variety of arrivals: a Common Swift, a couple of the very variable Large Yellow Underwing, a male Ghost Moth (Update: female - sorry! Many thanks to my commentor below for pointing out my slip) and a Dark Arches:

And next to the world of micros - two of the web-spinning Ermine moths which are another exercise in black and white. The smaller is, I think, an Apple and its larger companion a Bird-cherry.

And lastly, a rather unusual-looking moth which turned out to be - lower picture - that old and peculiar favourite the Pale Pinion (Update: Oops, I meant Prominent. Thanks to Conehead54 below for picking up slip number two. I clearly wasn't concentrating when I wrote the post. Apols). You seldom see them holding out their wings so boldly.