Tissue

Having been away for 10 days or so, returned to find numbers and diversity much reduced in East Oxford in the continuing heatwave, and with some species either absent or much scarcer than expected (no yellow underwings of any species over the last three nights, 24-26 July, for example, and only very small numbers of Common Rustic agg.). Still one or two nice surprises, the highlight being a very fresh Tissue (new for me) on the night on 26 July - the photo does not really do justice to what is one of the most beautiful moths I can remember seeing. Nor, I would add, does the illustration in Waring et al!

The Tissue, East Oxford, 26 July 2018