Moths have much better names than butterflies! On Friday night we had a visit from the Gwent county moth recorder with his (reasonably) portable lamp and generator. Set up for a couple of hours as it grew dark this attracted three different kinds of yellow underwing (Large, Lesser and Broad-bordered), three rustics (Flounced, Square-spot and the recently arrived Vine’s), Green Carpet (which is patterned like a carpet, it doesn’t eat them!), Light Emerald, Flame Shoulder, Ruby Tiger, Dusky Thorn, Setaceous Hebrew Character and the Yellow Shell that illustrates this post. An enthusiastic audience of children and adults were kept busy trying to capture these in clear plastic pots for inspection and identification.