Green Hairstreak drinking nectar from a Cotoneaster.

A Purple Emperor butterfly resting on an oak leaf.

Purple Thorn resting amungst dead leaves under strawberry plants.

I found this female Marbled White settling down for the evenng on some Dropwort. It was very windy, I often wonder why butterflies roost at the top of tall plants and not at the bottom of grasses, they can’t get seasick I suppose..

Here it is drinking from Privet flowers. Often the “tails” on the wing are missing after a butterfly has had a near miss with a hungry bird. This individual still has that pleasure.

It took a while to find this, walking a mile or two through woodland in Kent. When we found a patch of wood of just the right age and height, there were clouds of them. Wonderful.

I found this only by the fact that I saw it land on this grass. Homoeosoma sinuella provides a wonderful imitation of a grass seed.

This egg was, as they often are, was nestled in the crook of a branch of Blackthorn. This photo was taken from very close, the egg is just over 0.5mm across.

A Waved Black moth sitting in camouflage on limestone rock as it started to rain.

Ok, I have to admit that this moth arrived at my moth trap the night before and I found this water mint leaf for it to rest on.

Prrivet hawk moth.

A face-on view of this chunky moth.

I’ve always liked this moth ever since I pondered over its ID for ages. I’ve always thought the patchy metallic green sheen on the wings were worn down but after seeing it on this branch it blends in exactly with the algae.

I found a bramble leaf in the garden with these two vacated mines of a micro moth Stigmella aurella though it looks more like a much rarer moth that doesn’t occur around here. The adult moth is 2mm across

I went out to photograph a plant and came back with a butterfly photo. I saw a few of these asleep and covered in dew and I couldn't resist. Besides, the plant hadn't started flowering.

One of those little white insects that fly around when you walk through long grass.

During some digging in the garden my son found this caterpillar so I put it safe in an apple tree

This solitary bee flies around my garden taking nectar from Germander Speedwell. It can be tricky to catch buzzing around in the hot sunshine but I found this one as the sun was going down.

Dangling from a silk thread, I guess that this caterpillar was rather attached to the leaf it was eating.