Birds, Leps, Observations & Generalities - the images and ramblings of Mark Skevington. Sometimes.

Tuesday, 7 September 2021

Oranges and Lemons

The garden trap over the last couple of nights has been overwhelmingly brown, with Large and Lesser Yellow Underwings, Vine's Rustics, Setaceous Hebrew Character and Square-spot Rustics dominating. There is a bit of colour, including a glut of Brimstone Moths, a smattering of Green Carpets and a couple of Dusky Thorns. Though better still were these ....

Orange Sallow - perhaps the freshest I've seen, and the first here since 2014

Sallow - typical form

Sallow - form flavescens

Centre-barred Sallow

Frosted Orange

1 comment:

colin said...

Brilliant Images Skev.