Saturday 3 July 2010

The Happy Moth

OK, maybe only hardcore Divine Comedy fans will get the title joke, but here are a couple of photos of a Buff-tip moth with a 'smiley face' caught last night in the garden (and spotted by Sophie. I just scribbled 'Buff-t 1' in my moth notebook, and then carried on going through the other 80-odd species in the traps). It looks a bit like Thomas the Tank Engine from the side.... if Thomas the Tank Engine was about 3 cm long and had wings. And legs instead of wheels. And had evolved to look like a broken birch twig.

5 comments:

Skev said...

Looks very Acid House - surprised you didn't photoshop a big fat spliff ....

beast said...

Well that brought a big smile to my fat fuckin face....!

ps...great chilled music too, as always, from Divine Comedy...[i must get to see this band at some point]..

pps...and as the buff tips arse suggests..."have a nice day"...

The Leicester Llama said...

Arse? That's actually the head end (front of the thorax) - if you look closely on the large photos you can see its eyes underneath the 'face' bit.

beast said...

Opps...! [chuckle]...! My mistake Andy...[my only defense is that it's far too early in the morning for me to be posting bits on blogs]...

ps....plus of course....i'm talking out me arse as per usual...

Jeff Higgott said...

Divine Comedy are great, but I saw them a couple of years ago and they were very crap live. Be warned, Beast.