Moths were abundantly hiding in the DSV this morning. Every time I moved, a number flew up and vanished again under nearby vegetation. This white plume moth fortunately sat still for quite awhile and allowed me to take some photos. I think these are such intriguing creatures. They do not look moth-like at all!!

In addition to all the moths, I saw quite a number of cabbage white butterflies, European skippers, one pecks's skipper, a eastern forktail(damselfly), a few bluets (damselflies), and a common whitetail (dragonfly). As well there were numerous Eristalis hover flies around, looking like perfect imitations of honey bees. The tiny, tiny, tiny Toxomerus hover flies (we have two species here), are abundant, and can be seen all over the place. And what else was around? Well, scores of plant bugs of several species, particularly abundant on the cow parsnip, which also hosted some of the parsnip webworms (moths). Bumblebees are also abundant, and I noticed some of the pretty red-banded ones too. Potter wasps, mason wasps, ammophila wasps, leaf-cutter bees, sweat bees, etc. etc.