The lack of posting shouldn’t be taken to reflect a diminution in my attentiveness. But there are only so many photographs of hoverflies I can bring myself to take.
Conditions are distinctly mild but not actually cold, and rather damp. Not astonishing, then, that I found what I found lurking in an open bag of compost which I shifted when doing some tidying up this afternoon:
Common Frog
Having sifted through the few photographs I’ve taken over the past few days there are a couple of half decent moths, including a return of the Twenty-plume moth which I saw one example of last month but wasn’t able to photograph then as well as this:
Twenty-plume Moth (alucita hexadactyla)
Oh my goodness what a pretty moth the twenty-plumed is! I don’t think we have it here, but I must check. Thank you! Diane Tucker, Estate Naturalist, Hill-Stead Museum