elephants

and turning from one proboscis to another this is an elephant hawk moth, probably small ( deilephila porcellus) but it is hard to know, that decided to volunteer to be Harriet's supper tonight. It escaped and flew off very happily to find more elephants to eat.

brother Frodo

... we paid a quick visit to see Lily and Frodo in Downgate. Frodo has had the house renamed in his honour, although Melon Frodo doesn't seem quite right to us. He is very like his mum.

a sunny day

Stoke Climsland, Duchy College, Venterdon ..my universe as seen from Kit Hill on a sunny bright day.

libellula

I have never seen this insect before but there were a couple at Kit Hill Quarry today. I think it is a broad bodied libellula, a member of the darter dragon flies ... in a quarry near you ...get out and see it, take a walk.

betony

betony tastefully set off by red grass. It is very abundant and bushy in this strange field, betoine poupre in French, a member of the woundwort family and much used in herbal medicine

noisy moths

on the betony was this largish moth which was making a very loud thrumming noise, presumably to scare us away. We cannot identify it but it has an odd yellow mark on its wing. Any ideas? Is it possibly a humming bird hawk moth? Maybe not, but it was very noisy. And it has alien looking green eyes