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  Wednesday evening and
I managed to cpature a couple of images of the hummingbird hawkmoth
which has been coming into the garden most evenings at bout 7.45 p.m. It is
continually hovering and then moving swiftly to the next blossom of the
buddlia so the wings are indistinct but the photos show the length of the
proboscis and the general shape. Unfortuntaely it chooses the topmost
blossoms from which to take the nectar so the colour is also unclear. I still
live in hopes of getting a better image. I would also be dleighted to see a
convulvulus hawkmoth in the flesh there are a grat many round this year and I
managed to see some in Scilly but just at dusk when I did not achieve a
photo.
   Last night also produced a
forest shield bug, pentatoma rufipes, the picture furthest right. It
is not as brightly coloured as the one discovered on Tuesday or as
beautifully patterned as the one we found a couple of times on holiday, Dolycoris
baccarum, also pictured here. (Don't forget that clicking on a picture
will usually open a larger one.)
 Finally
last night also produced a couple of moths, another small blood-vein, see
above, and this lilac beauty moth, also known as the lilac thorn, apeira
syringaria. Note the way in which it folds it's wings so that it appears
like a crumpled leaf. The texture of the wing also adds to this appearance.
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