And look what appeared!

Cold nights – sunny days. I rather assumed it would be a bit early to see much in the way of activity from the moth population. My moth trap is not what one might call robust.

I fear one good shower of rain and it might dissolve, crumple or sag in all the wrong places and goodness knows what inclement weather would do for the electricals. So as you may deduce I am reluctant to expose it to rough old, wet nights.

I doubted if we would have many takers and it is true nothing terribly spectacular decided to snuggle down among the egg boxes just below the light.

However this morning I was surprised to see a number of moths gathering on the window near the trap and about 20 had taken refuge under the light.

Here are two of the window dwellers

Slowly they began to emerge. There are always one or two who will fly away at the least provocation. Others were more reluctant to emerge – clearly displaying a “Do no disturb” attitude. Five remained asleep all day and I have not explored this evening to see if they have at last flown away.

Much to my surprise we had another visitor who hopped on to the scene. Mr or Mrs Frog was not keen to remain for very long and was just a touch reluctant to be photographed but it was good to see that the sunshine had encouraged him or her to pay a visit.

This time round I will not put the names of each moth on display. No doubt someone will oblige. And doubtless there will be an email instructing me on how to sex a frog.  Not sure I really want to know – despite its gorgeous colouring I think it is quite a common one.

Photos were all taken with my mobile phone – My camera doesn’t get up until after 9.00am.