My biggest regular moth beast, the Privet Hawk, flew in two nights ago, kindly coinciding with US guests, a happy hobby of my moths which seem to sense when we have visitors, high days or holidays. It obligingly perched on their fingers and we also had a Large Elephant Hawk to add its pinky-greeny beauty to the scene.
The supporting cast has been excellent as well and I've been kept busy uploading details of newcomers to iRecord. Among them in order below...
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| A Green Pug |
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| A distinctively patterned Buff Ermine |
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And another - the standard type has a scattering of spots overall, whereas these have the strong black cluster in the first case and very little on the forewing in the second Meanwhile here is the year's first Buff-tip, a marvellously well-camouflaged moth which uncannily resembles a twig. Alongside it in the eggboxes were a Spectacle, a Marbled Minor, a Turnip moth and a pretty little Grass Rivulet - delightful name. |
The Gold Spot is a very welcome visitor as a change from the much commoner Burnished Brass shown in the second picture below. Actually, the position of the camera and the light on the reflective wing scales give this particular example of the BB extra distinction.
On we go with two non-moth guests whose IDs I can now establish speedily thanks to the AI ID button on my iPhone. Behold the natty little bug Glyphotaelius pellucidis and the caddis fly Rhabdomiris striatellus.
Not many more to go now. Here is a neighbourly pair of Large Nutmegs (though my otherwise trusty iPhone insists wrongly that they are Dark Arches). Then comes a Freyer's Pug, a Tawny Marbled Minor, a Bright-line Brown-eye, an Orange Footman and, er, I'm not sure what. The iPhone is still fixated with Dark Arches but I hope to get back here with the right ID soon.
And so to a very pretty if soberly-coloured Knot Grass and a Common White Wave, gracefully swaying on a rosebush stalk just outside the trap.
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