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Second only to my bungled IDs, the main (and fully justified) criticism I get from readers here is about the lack of scale. Are the moths I feature large or small, tiny or vast? I take the point but I don't want (and admittedly partly can't be bothered) to stick a ruler in every photograph. Instead, I hope that my fascination with eggboxes will gradually become general. Once you know how big they are, and the details of their various features of recesses and cones, the size of the moths should no longer be an issue.

I also try to include helpful features in the background, such as other dozing insects, my pyjamas or, fairly frequently, my fingers and thumbs. Today's top picture, for example, shows that tiny dagger of a moth, Catoptria pinella (if I am not mistaken) with my thumb lurking behind. A little distant, I know, but it gives you a notion.

Feeling specially helpful, I've then combined the picture above of lovely Acleris forsskaleana in a typical eggbox folding-groove (typical to us eggbox savants, that is), with one below taken from a distance and showing the whole box. Isn't he or she minute? 

And so to some other visitors - ID-ed like yesterday's by captions which one and all are invited to check, confirm or put right.

Dun-bar

Dusky Sallow - pretty moth

Lesser Cream Wave

Pyrausta aurata - slightly different from Penny's birthday Pyrausta purpuralis

Small Emerald - large thumb

Now for one or two curious recent sights in the trap. First, a wasp briefly paid court to a lovely Marbled Green but a love match was not to be.

Then a socking great micro - one of the Crambyds? - appeared to have similar ambitions towards an Elephant Hawk:

A Poplar Hawk - one of many which visit me at the moment - looped the bulb flex loop

Picnic mugs left over from the day before provided a cheery background for a Coronet:

And finally, here's an unexpected guest: a Meadow Brown butterfly which got muddled up between day and night. Note, for those who often ask the differences between moths and butterflies, here is one: butterflies always hold their wings like this, folded vertically above their bodies. A few moths do the same, but most prefer the flat-n-folded-back look. Update: check out the very interesting points made on some of the above in Comments.