You Really Don't Need to Go Far to Find Nature....

We live in a street close to the centre of Edinburgh, the front gardens are very small and there are only a few trees. So although nature is around, we don't generally expect to see anything too uncommon. However, when I took out the recycling this morning, I saw this unusual looking insect on the recycling bin

I recognised it immediately as a plume moth, but didn't know what species it would be. So when I got home, I looked up plume moths on Nature Spot and my photo is good enough for me to be fairly certain this is a Beautiful Plume Moth (Amblyptilia acanthadactyla).