There are quite a lot of variegated butterflies here sometimes during the summer, although they tend to lie low when it's a bit cold and windy as it is so far today.
Yesterday though an elderly professorial-looking bloke turned up and wandered about the back lawn for a couple of hours. I didn't speak to him but I was told he was a lepidopterist interested not in butterflies but moths. He left a moth trap at the other end of the lawn - which I didn't examine - all night, and its white glare was there when I went to bed at 2 this morning. I'm told he turned up this morning, harvested the moths he wanted, released the others and went on his way.
Herself now tells me there are 'a lot of moths' in our fridge. I haven't noticed them myself, but I can see it's the sort of place where they might expect to avoid being trapped and embarrassingly studied. Intelligent of them I can't help thinking.
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Lepidoptera new
Lepidoptera new