I won't be feeling so well-disposed to them when their caterpillars feast on our vegetable garden, but these 'cabbage whites' are a welcome addition to the string of butterflies brought by the wonderful run of sunny weather. The Brimstones, Orange-tips and Green-veined Whites still abound after more than a month, and they've now been joined by the Large and Small Whites below, one of the latter seen flying a reconnaissance mission over our excellently productive Purple Sprouting.
A Speckled Wood, below, also came visiting and I keep seeing Holly Blues which obstinately refuse to land and pose. It won't be long before we have Common Blues, Brown Arguses and Marbled Whites on the field edge over the hedge.
The moth trap, meanwhile, has spent a whiffy night beside our compost heap where it looked picturesque enough for me to take the photo below before I crept off to bed.
Here's the view from the trap this morning; a delicate Scotch mist lying low above the neighbours' field.
Overnight guests included a bit of welcome, bright colour in the shape of the Brimstone moth and the Red-green Carpet below:
It was also good to find a couple of Red Twin-spot Carpets, one pretending to be a butterfly, and my fourth member of the Prominent family to arrive this year, a couple of the strangely-shaped and brilliantly camoulaged Pale Prominents one of them attended by an inquisitive fly:
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