Something was on the wing tonight after the greater part of the light had gone out of the day; something that ‘wasn’t quite right’. Too cold to be a bee, too big and too quiet. with a distinctly different flight pattern and in-flight posture.
Stupidly not wearing specs though I can’t see well in the gloom; [...]
Archive for June 11th, 2009
Close, but no cigar…
Posted in Trivia, tagged hawk moth, Insects, Moths, Trivia on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For sometime now
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bathroom, Heart and Dart, Indoors, Insects, Lepidoptera, moth on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For as long as I’ve been paying any attention to the moths and other insects making their way into my houseĀ (particularly the bathroom) and developing a smattering of knowledge of them the Heart and Dart [moth] has loomed as one of those iconic species – in the sense that it is instantly recognisable so [...]
