NORTH DOWNS & BEYOND

You wait years to see one, and then the following day another pops up. This morning the garden MV produced another male Rannoch Looper, this one a little paler and smaller than yesterdays. Over the last two days, this species has been recorded from Suffolk all the way round to Cornwall, so now might be a good time to go out and record it - unless you fancy a long trip to Scotland to see the resident population!

Last year's mini-invasion of Rannoch Loopers in to the south-east of England past me by, but this morning one of the first moths in the MV that caught my attention was this little beauty. The lack of strong markings would suggest that this moth is a male, but please bear in mind that this is based on my only experience of the species being this very moth - it's a lifer!