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| Azure Damselfly Coenagrion puella |
Not the best of photos, but a record of some of the impressive insects on the wing. I was chuffed to get anything of the Common Darters, since they were living up to their name and moving at very high speed – while locked in the most intimate of embraces, the male in front.
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| Mating Common Darter dragonflies Sympetrum striolatum |
The rather beautiful, but diminutive Purple & Gold Moth, barely a centimetre across at rest, flies by day, as well as at night. This paused just long enough on a rock-rose shoot for me to grab a quick snap. Thyme, one of the caterpillars' foodplants, grows nearby between slate stepping stones and I imagine its aromatic scent, carried on the warm air, was responsible for luring this colourful visitor.
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| Purple & Gold Moth Pyrausta purpuralis |
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