About time...

I'm especially fond of Old Lady as a species - I think they look spectacular in an understated way - but hadn't had any this year in our new garden in Wolvercote, Oxfordshire. So it was nice to find one, albeit a rather battered specimen, in the trap on Wednesday night. Even nicer was to finally get in on the act where Tree-lichen Beauty is concerned: one individual in the same trap, which just barely stuck around long enough for me to fire off a record shot.

Tree-lichen Beauty, 19/8/20

Rather knackered Old Lady, 19/8/20

Steve Goddard