Is this dude cool or what? He came to visit yesterday morning, and stayed in the shade for the whole day, taking his own sweet time. Not a butterfly. A moth. According to the Wiki entry, get this, 89% of them have been wiped out in the UK. So he's a rare kind of guy. Testimony to the good health of my son and daughter-in-law's garden (no chemicals, no pesticides whatsoever, and a bit like a jungle in places — in short, my ideal garden). Sadly, he was gone this morning. I suppose, off doing mothy things.
He's also phenomenally well-protected against predators. He emits some sort of ultra-sound that the bats don't like at all at twilight, and he's got poison sacs so that he tastes absolutely foul if a bird takes a bite out of him. Most birds are well-warned in advance. Some stupid birds do it, and get seriously ill.
He's also staggeringly beautiful. My granddaughter, immediately seeing it from the kids' angle, said that his marking would be uber cool for trousers or a jacket design.