Friday, 29 July 2022


 Here is a Garden Tiger. Sources seem to vary as to whether this is a night or day flying moth. Certainly I saw this one in the daytime but perhaps something disturbed it. Once regarded as a common sight it has experienced a drastic decline.
 The Garden Tiger is the one that hatches from the long hairy caterpillar which we are told as children not to touch because the hairs will irritate the skin.