
As hot and humid air banishes the breeze I begin to see fritillaries but the only insect that settles in the six-spot burnet moth which crawls amongst flowers of thyme. A striking moth, jolie-laide, with its beautiful scarlet wings and a burnish of blue on its antennae but a black furry body. As it feeds my image shows the hollow tube of its proboscis curving into a source of nectar in thyme flowers. The six- spot burnet flies in a blurr of scarlet, with rapid wing-beats.