“Unmistakable”
7th July 2010, Wednesday
When you see a moth like this in the trap, you know it’s something good! Finding space among the record haul of 130 Dark Arches this morning was this fine furry Leopard Moth, my first since 2007. This family (Cossidae) has about 700 species worldwide but only two in the UK. This one lives in open woodland and gardens, the other (Reed Leopard) in reedbeds, with very few UK sites.