GREENWOOD
Nature and the neighbourhood
Plume Moth
A rather strange, delicate, white moth was hovering and settling in the undergrowth along the hedge between the Community Orchard and the maize field early the other evening. It was a Plume Moth (Pterophorus pentadactyla). It was almost completely white – head, antennae, wings, body, and legs – but with what looked like blue eyes. The wings were divided into spokes radiating like the ribs of a fan, five on each side. Each rib was covered in fine filaments so that it looked like a feather. This species of moth has larvae that eat the leaves and flowers of bindweed, and that plant grows all along the field boundary where I found the moth. I could not get a very clear shot because I couldn’t physically get close to the moth and had to use the zoom, but I thought it was interesting enough to share with you.
GREENWOOD 
How beautiful! I’ve never seen one of those before, I shall keep an eye out
Yes, I think it is fairly rare. The species does not appear in many of the guides to common moths in Britain; and I have only seen it once before about twenty years ago.
Great! I’ve never seen one, either. Thanks for posting.
It’s otherworldly. What a beauty.