Pam's got a little vegetable patch going and she is producing some nice fresh greens. Every day she's been looking through the leaves and eliminating any butterfly eggs, or so she thought.

I had a bit of a lie in this morning, so it was about seven a.m when I started on my moth traps. It wasn't fantastic, but there was a new species for the garden, an Annulet. This moth likes coastal areas and its main food plant is Heather, but it does use other herbaceous plants as well.

The family of pyralid moths may not seem as exciting as the Hawk-moths but in their own way these are just as fascinating. I don't find them easy to identify but this small moth, about 1 cm long, has a nice row of raised scales to help identify it.
Once I'd finished the moths and had breakfast I checked the Cricket score at Canterbury and saw that Middlesex were in a sorry way. After sorting a few other things out I decided to go along to spend the afternoon watching Kent murder their bowling. After all they are bottom of the table and we are top. But it didn't work out that way.
Once I'd finished the moths and had breakfast I checked the Cricket score at Canterbury and saw that Middlesex were in a sorry way. After sorting a few other things out I decided to go along to spend the afternoon watching Kent murder their bowling. After all they are bottom of the table and we are top. But it didn't work out that way.





2 comments:
I have some of those furry guys in my garden, mostly in the rhubarb I think. You don't seem too excited but I am thrilled to have identified something living out there apart from the herring gull that roosts on my chimney.
Not excited, the way they eat my dinner before I can makes me something, but not excited!
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