A Jewish Moth!

I ran my moth trap on the night of 10/03/07 and caught this little beauty. It is the Hebrew Character or Orthosia gothica. The name is derived from the black mark which looks like an angular letter c (or the Hebrew letter Nun).

This moth has one generation between March and early May in southern Britain and a little later in the north and Ireland.

It comes readily to light and sugar, often flying very late in the night, even in cold conditions and feeds at sallow catkins.

It is a resident and common moth, so please look out for it at this time of year.