Angles and Demons

My favourite moth? I use to be certain I knew this one! In my first year, it was probably one of the hawks, either a Death's-head or Oleander, (when I say first year, I mean first year mothing, not in my first year of life! I wasn't a little toddler stating how I love to see the famed Atropos!) but I decided I had to have seen it for it to be a fav, so that quickly had to change.
So that's when my favourite moth was decided, it was a Shuttle-shaped Dart. Common and often - almost always- never looked at properly, but these are fantastic little moths, which you can rely on! They are about for most of the year - I've seen them in November!

But it was short-lived (about one and a half year), the honour of being my favourite moth has been moved to another common and regular moth - which this year has been in great numbers the last few weeks! For those who can guess from the name, it is the Angle Shades, not just because it's a fantastic looking moth, but because it is the most chilled out moth there is! I've seen 3 the last few days away from the trap, just sitting in the open! I say one on the edge of a wall, sat right in the open, I've seen them in the middle of a field, and they are often in numbers of the side of walls, just sat there.
They are so confident with their "I'm a leaf" act, they do not bother to find shelter, and it's that confidence which gives them character. (or just a way to survive, if you think like that...)

Angle Shades

Anyhow, now I need to think of a "demon" to write about (I had to go for Angles and Demons, from the Dan Brown book, which I recently read).

The most obvious moth-related demon is either clothes moths, which are a pain, or wasps, which are a more literal pain. So yeah, wasps have become a bigger nuisance with the trap in recent weeks, and while it is starting to die down, there are still killing my moths!
I have always wondered about wasps, whether they learn the moths go into the traps, and learn this fact, and visit the traps to get to the mothy meals within, only to get stuck, or whether they are too attracted to light.
I'd always hoped it was the first, so they could be the Moriarty to my Sherlock, but now, as it's still dark when I get up, I notice that there is a wasp or two blindly slamming into the trap, so they are not criminal masterminds, but rather, enjoy the same fate as the moths.

Some wasps having a group meeting.

But, I totally understand that wasps are very useful in keeping pests down, so I can't really call them demons, it's just that everyone seems  to hate them, and they eat my moths - sooo.. put two and two together..

I would have posted this yesterday, but yeah, didn't in the end, as immigration could have been good last night. Nothing of great note in the garden, some common migrants, Dark Sword-grass, Silver Y, Rush Veneer, Rusty-dot Pearl, Diamond-back and a Feathered Brindle, in addition to 2 Vestals the day before, but over at Portland was a Egyptian Bollworm, along with an Antigastra catalaunalis (both I went to see). I must admit, I am quite upset, in the last patches of immigration this year, I managed a decent moth (Paracorsia repandalis in June, and Dotted Footman in August), but nothing of my own yet of great note this September.