Thursday, 22 June 2017

Prey

Small Fan-foot, Herminia grisealis. On the wall near my garden light trap in Crowborough.
Small Fan-foot, Herminia grisealis. On the wall near my garden light trap in Crowborough.
Just a brief post.  In this hot weather I looked out at my light trap in the middle of the night, to photograph the moths I could see on the wall, in case any of them flew away before the morning.  And that's what I thought this Small Fan-foot had done.

Remains of Small Fan-foot, Herminia grisealis. On the wall near my garden light trap in Crowborough.
Remains of Small Fan-foot, Herminia grisealis. On the wall near my garden light trap in Crowborough.
But after clearing the trap in the morning I looked all around carefully, and I saw what looked like a small moth high above.  On looking at the photo, I can see that it used to be a Small Fan-foot .. no doubt the very same one, which has had an unfortunate encounter with a spider in the night.  (Fortunate for the spider, of course.)

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