light grey moth with a noticeable dark outer jagged crossline, and rosy pink on hindwing between two wavy black stripes and a white fringe.

Rosy Underwing. Photo: Paul Harris

Paul has only ever recorded two Rosy Underwings in his Weymouth garden, this one on 27/07/26. He tells us :

I’ve been putting sugar solution on the fence in the hope of a Dark Crimson but got this instead.

This is a migrant moth which is the envy of moth ers.

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