Continuing with the theme of fingers from my last post, Emily is going through a spell of yellow nails which add a certain zip to the moths which she much enjoys hosting on each hand. Actually, the first on the top left is one of the many Peacock butterflies which she has hatched from caterpillars, followed by three examples of the battering which moths get from their flying adventures - two raggedy Swallowtails and a very worn Lackey. Then we have the jewel-like micros Acleris holmiana and Acleris forsskaleana, a Willow Beauty, and the micros Chrystoteuchia culmella, Syncopacma larseniella and Aethes rubigana. What ponderous names for tiny scraps!
In the moths-on-fingers department, the beautiful Elephant Hawk is keeping up its visits here as strongly as the Poplar Hawk and is if anything more attractive to young visitors. Not just on hands either - see below.
This Poplar Hawk's perch took me back to 2011 when Emily's Mum and Dad took us to see the famous Monarch butterfly migration in Mexico and one of the majestic insects plumped for a similar resting place on my daughter-in-law's head.
Youngest brother meanwhile hosted another Poplar Hawk before letting it go and sun itself on a nearby wall.
Other regular beauties keep arriving meanwhile and here are some of them: one of the Thorns; I am useless at distinguishing between them, a Smoky Wainscot, a Heart and Dart, an opalescent Mother-of-Pearl, a Marbled Green, a Blood-vein, a Dun-bar, a Silver Y and a locally common Lunar-spotted Pinion.
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