Devon, early August

I got into a routine of walking around the night lights each morning pre-breakfast to see if I could see any moths. The first one I saw was this male four spotted footman. The female has the four spots. A new species for me.


Another excitement was finding Jersey tigers around the centre I stayed at. I saw a migrant at Dungeness over a decade ago so really nice to see this species again. All over the place they were

Jumping Jehoshaphat or great green bush cricket? A truly superb insect but glad it was not on my hand!

This wasp spider just would not play the posing game but a real treat to see