Late last night, just after I'd finished writing my fox post, a large moth fluttered into my room, settled on the wall, and promptly mutated into a badly torn piece of tree bark!



This extraordinary creature is a pale prominent moth Pterostoma palpina, so called because of the prominent tufts on its forewings. It apparently lays its eggs on poplars and willows, neither of which are the most common tree around here. At rest against a rough tree trunk, it must be almost invisible

I seem to have been acquiring butterfly and moth photos on recent walks, so here are a few more:

Painted lady



Gatekeeper



And, finally, this...another perhaps, although maybe humans look strange from its perspective! It is (I think) the caterpillar of the vapourer moth, which isn't particularly spectacular as an adult.