The weather has got markedly colder especially at night and very especially for those of us who have just been luxuriating in sun-blessed Italy. The seasonal moths don't mind, however. My first lighting of the lamp since getting home attracted a large and varied haul.
The Green-brindled Crescent shown above is the best of them, a wonderfully-marked moth which would repay a much better camera than my sturdy iPhone. I am also very fond of the contrastingly plain Autumnal Rustic in my second picture; it looks like a Puritan chaplain in Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army.
The Lunar Underwing is arriving prolifically in all three of its colourways, grey, brown and beige - the grey one below going nicely with my beautiful turquoise walking socks. The sinister looking Black Rustic is also coming on stream.
Here's a brown Lunar Underwing below, followed by a Sallow, a species redolent of Autumn, and finally for today, a Snout, which glories in the apt Linnean 'surname' of proboscidalis.
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