All shapes and colours

 

The seasons draw on and Autumn has arrived with glorious leaf colours but colder nights. Never say die with the moth trap, however. There are some lovely creatures still about.  My top picture shows one of the best of them, the Green-brindled Crescent which I featured a couple of weeks ago and whose fascinating history I touched on in a post back in 2020, Covid times. It has an apt flying companion at the moment, The Red-green Carpet which came in considerable numbers for several nights last week.

They were joined by the Satellite below with its marking so like one of the simpler of the aliens in the handheld game Space Invaders which was one of the first computer games I ever played.  That's followed below by the familiar micro-moth Carcina quercana which features on the cover of the Micromoth Bible.

Then I had a White-point lurking in an eggbox's gloom, a Cypress Carpet, that fairly recent immigrant which is really flourishing in Britain, and a Treble-bar or possibly Lesser Treble-bar.

Next we have a couple of Red-line Quakers and a beautiful Swallowtail moth, a very recent emergence judging by the perfection of its wings and hairy thorax.

And away from the moths, Goodness what a lot of Daddy Long-legs are about. They are fantastically ungainly but determined to couple with one another whether at rest or aloft. This one hadn't learned, however, that trying to squeeze through an eggbox cone is a very bad idea.

To finish with, a socking great caddis fly, Micropterna sequax according to AI.  I am trying that out on iRecord.