Just like buses, nothing new for a while and then two at once! I was tidying up the greenhouse, removing some tomato and cucumber leaves that had started to wither, and when I had finished I noticed a surprise on my arm!
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This is when it is handy to have a mobile phone as I could extract it from my pocket and take the photo one handed. I don't know much about moths but I do have a book of photos - The Collins Complete Guide to British Insects. I have found that if you don't have a photo of what you have seen, it is remarkably difficult to remember exactly what it looked like!
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This is a good book for matching photos rather than using keys, but there are an awful lot of moths...
Starting at page 156, the photos go on until page 270, and further if you want to see the caterpillars. Given my level of ID skills for moths, it was just a matter of scanning each page of photos until I saw something similar. It was nearly a hundred pages later that I found it!
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| Angle Shades Moth - 3rd photo down on the right |
It is an Angle Shades (Phlogophera meticulosa). Not one I have seen before but apparently occurs all over Britain.
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