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   Tuesday,
16th September and the weather continues sunny and warm although the evenings
and mornings are beginning to feel a little more autumnal. The moths are from
Sunday night when I found this blood-vein, Timandra griseata, on the
front door, the garden carpet, Xanthorhoe fluctuata, in the kitchen
and the moth to the right which I think is a Large Fruit-tree Tortrix,
Archips podana, on the back wall.
 The
nuthatch appeared again but this afternoon instead of at the regular 10.00
a.m.
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 This
week has been busy with both meetings during the day and in the evening and
therefore there has been very little time just to stop and stare. However
last night, Wednesday, we were at the church and the outside lights attracted
some moths. One settled where I could take it's picture so I did and this is
the result.It is a Common Marbled Carpet, Chloroclysta truncata.
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The
sedum whilst it continues to attract much insect life seems this year not to
be as attractive as normal to the butterflies. They seem to be keeping mainly
to the buddlia which has a few flowers remaining. Last night the sedum had
lots of earwigs on and today there were bees, this bluebottle and a ladybird.
Meanwhile a shieldbug was discovered on a gladioli leaf and a forest bug on
the rhubarb. I did not manage to catch the latter but here is a picture of
the former.