I first saw one of these several days back and thought it was mi first Garden Tiger Moth?! It flew in front of me a couple hundred yards from my house in Enfield and then landed on a wall. The only camera I, rather annoyingly, had on me was my phones camera but no sooner had I removed it from a pocket and the Moth launched back towards me and then up and over a fence!
Around two or three days later I had just left my house when another, or indeed thew same one, looped over my garden fence and then landed on the wood. I shot back inside the house to grab the camera only to find it had disappeared on being back in the garden?!
Darn it!
Than I was moving around slowly when it flew across me from right to left and up under some conifers before landing again! Then I got some shots and some videos!
It was then that I noticed it did not look like a Garden Tiger Moth and thought it must be something different!
After some excited texts from my brothers I realised it was a Jersey Tiger Moth, Euplagia quadripunctaria.
Now there are three videos and this thing was stunning in flight due to its deep orange underwings, which you may just get a glimpse of at the end of one of the videos?!
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