Moths!

Moths moths moths...

With the deadly combination of camera, book, and curiosity, you are afflicted with them.. It is, despite what might seem to be appearances, a tragic story; with numbers and variety a shadow of what was here even three years ago. Then my vertical moth trap of a home could give at least a half dozen a floor from a good dozen spp. and that's not counting micros.
Not any more.

But there still remains the odd one, and I'm looking regularly. Behold, my first noctuid!

Coronet

Fan-foot

by day

Fan-foot

by night

Before and after Stone Curlew business, those. I'd reasonably assume 'tis the same insect.

Yet another variety on 

Riband Wave*

Single-dotted Wave

[a pale one]

An interesting debate is whether the moths I put up here are the only ones present, or the ones present who survive the assorted threats stationary food undergoes. Not least anything which rests less than flush [like a noctuid] would give a clearer shot for a bird or indeed bat to snatch..

Plume sp.

This last from a year ago - put up just because. I do like that double reflection from the window.


Be Seeing You...



[[*The kink in the lines where they reach the leading edge of the forewing is the giveaway in what looks a lot like a Plain Wave.]]