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This beautiful moth is extremely well named, on summer nights you might see the male dancing its ghostly dance across your garden. He is trying to attract a mate with his rapidly moving wing beats whilst hovering & darting just above the vegetation.

The scientific name for this moth is Hepialus humuli. The female is more yellowy than the male (who is in both of my pictures here).

I used off camera flash to help me with these shots, manual focusing in the near dark was the trickiest problem.

For a different view, why not take a look at the wildlife trust’s page.