Magpie moth

Well, it would seem like many bloggers, my posts are unreliable and sparse. Over a month of beautiful summer adventuring and not a post to be found. I'll try and take some photos next week. In the meantime, I'll post my other nighttime visitor, Eurrhypara hortulata the small magpie moth.

Dead things

Having thoroughly enjoyed the dead things series on NatureNerding, I thought I'd contribute a picture or two of my own. At first I thought this was just a fallen whorl of leaves from a houseplant in the bathroom, but a close inspection shows it to be a rather splendid moth. Any species suggestions from you nature nerds out there?