a creamy brown moth with dark speckling and a diagonal blood red line running across forewing and hindwing

Blood -vein. Photo: Mark Pike

metalic blue/green moth resting on a purple flower

Forester. Photo: Mark Pike

Mark spent some time in Motcombe Meadows on 29/05/26 and photographed this beautifully backlit Blood-vein and one of at least 21 Foresters present.

The Foresters can appear a metallic green or blue according to the way the light catches them.

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