There are some beautiful insects around at the moment. Some are common ones, like this small tortoiseshell, but what makes it special is how clean and new-looking it is, which isn't surprising as....
....there are plenty of their caterpillars busy demolishing the local nettles.
This beauty is a comma with its very characteristic frayed wing....
....and this bright caterpillar will, hopefully, become a spectacular cinnebar moth.
However, the most impressive of the recent insects is this one, which was about 5cm long and sleeping peacefully on the post which holds up the local allotment gate. It's a privet hawk moth,
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