Large Yellow Underwing

Large Yellow Underwing, Noctua pronuba.  Noctuid. Moth trap in Hayes, 16 September 2011.

The Noctuid moths in general are not very lively when I untrap them in the morning. Most of them just stay where they are put. Often, when they are tapped out of the egg boxes they have been resting on, they play dead, and I have a few shots of their undersides as a result.

This one was just awake enough to sit up on my finger.  You can see its proboscis coiled up at the front of its head.