This beauty appeared and was photographed late in the evening of 5 July, during a period of high temperatures in our part of the UK. The background is the glass of the bathroom window. The leaves of the pattern are approx 2cm wide at their widest.
No reappearances by this gorgeous winged visitor, sadly.
Postscript:
You start something, intending to Keep It Simple, Stupid. And before you know it the damned thing is controlling you. Never in my life before have I gone into a charity shop and made a bee-line for the few inches of shelf space given over to books about insects.
Well I'm now the proud owner of The Illustrated Book of Insects. Publisher: Peerage Books (1985). Illustrated by Joyce Bee (No, really!!), Derek Whiteley and Peter Parks. Text by John Burton with IHH Yarrow, AA Allen, L Parmenter and I Lansbury.
Even so it is the fault of none of the above that I've taken it upon myself to identify Visitor No. 1 on the basis of this non-authoritative and not comprehensive work as a Geometer (Ennominae) and more specifically as a Swallow-tailed Moth (Ourapteryx sambuccario).
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