Outdoors No. 1

I had to take the rubbish out. Even I recognised that this domestic chore isn't optional.

I happened to spot this butterfly on the neighbor's fence early and grabbed the chance to snap a photo. Presumably new-born.

Taken 21 August 2006.

Visitors 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 (a town meeting)

A very small pretty silver visitor. Elegant. (Probably a clothes eater!)















A first time visitor.















The largest visitor of the night of 16 August...














and here, in a side meeting at the town convention in my bathroom last night...















The most distinctive-looking visitor last night...

Armed with my trusty copy of The Illustrated Book of Insects I believe this to be another of the Geometers (Ennominae), specifically the Brimstone Moth (Opisthograptis luteolata).












A regular, kept rather aloof from the crowd in the bathroom last night.

Visitor No. 8: and another non-moth (I think)

I really love this guy, too. He's such a glorious emerald green and with those sexy see-through wings and those long antenae. Wow. Pity about the cobwebs in the background.

Visitor No. 7

This guy has made just one appearance. He was photographed in the bathroom on 24 July at 00:22 hours. We were still in the grip of the July heatwave but the ambient temperature had dropped a long way below the day's max.

Not at all sure what it was or why it wandered into the bathroom. It was very small, though - the brush strokes are visible in the paint work.

But I've already made my confession concerning DIY - and besides, the brush work in the bathroom is 'inherited'.

Visitor No. 6

This photograh was taken in the bathroom at a couple of minutes after midnight on 30 July. Because of the position of this moth I was forced to take the photograph of it at rest at this very sharp angle which does show the ghostly colouration to good effect as well as reveal the profile.

Visitor No. 5

The moth in these pictures was a morning visitor, yesterday. It is photographed against the backdrop provided by my kitchen curtains. I did, as you will see, attempt to photograph the moth in fight - without great success. After the last photograph was taken I opened the door and it took flight.