Extremes

 Friday August 11

After weeks of rain, we now have hot and humid August days. Not brilliant for moths as we also have bright moonlit nights. The Perseid meteorite showers are due this weekend, I hope for some clear skies in which to enjoy the spectacle. Wet and hot also means that  the weeds are proliferating, the troughs I weeded so assiduously a month ago now look as though they were not done at all. The strawberries are also producing a myriad runners. It's true, a gardener's work is never done, thank goodness for Adrian who achieves some semblance of order in the few hours a week he spends here.

I saw a new moth at Cley yesterday, a lovely one too. A Beautiful Yellow Underwing which lives up to its name. A visitor named Louie trapped on Kelling Heath and potted two of them, one showing its underwing . I didn't have a chance to photograph, as I was doing the scribing, here's one from the web.


Pam put a lure out in the garden this afternoon and trapped a Yellow-legged Clearwing. A delicate, and very beautiful species of moth, which is a favourite of mine. The whole family is.



 

Today's moth trap had four first for the year moths, A tatty Herald

 a fresh Antler moth



a Straw Underwing, and a Dusky Thorn.


Comments

  1. David Bryant23 August 2023 at 22:55

    Lovely Clearwing photos: I didn't 'invest' in any lures this year and haven't seen a single one!
    The same is true of the Perseids: the worst year in the sixty I've been recording them!

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