JERSEY TIGER MOTH in ENFIELD (AGAIN) - EUPALGIA QUADRIPUNCTARIA

Well the weather has been crap and currently I am fighting off an attempt to make me homeless, despite the fact I have four things that make me homeless. Fibromyalgia (memory, feet pain and many others), damaged right knee and collapsed discs in y back are just a few of the long list I have. In fact around 5% of what I have, if that.

Trust me it is a drag like you would not believe.

So what with that, the housing situation and the dreadful weather we have been having I ave been somewhat ... preoccupied. Also my legs kind of ... just sort of switched off three times. This was due to the attack on me causing anxiety attacks so bad that they switch off your legs, which can even become permanent. Something else to worry about, ,great.

But I have seen and got something that is kind of interesting as it has occurred both in my garden and 100 yards from my house, more sightings of Jersey Tiger Moths.

I find it amusing that I have never seen the more common Garden Tiger Moths but have now seen several Jersey Tiger Moths over two or three consecutive years. Cannot quite recall if it was last year I first saw them or the year before?

I have now seen three of these over the course of just a couple of days. First one in my garden that look a little tatty and then one about 100 yards away I filmed and then as I walked away another one flew past me.

I have also had a local friend about 2 miles south of me and who knows his animals, comment on one of these posts in Facebook and tell me that he has seen them in Bush Hill Park. So unusually they seem to be fairly abundant in Enfield.

I apologise for the quality of some of the pictures and a video but then they was done on a phone,, a Moto X Style. So ... kind of not bad. Lol.

JERSEY TIGER MOTH - Euplagia quadripunctaria

Well here is a turn up for the books!

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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