just another of them "chance sighting" things, look you see. although in this instance not, alas, either an item of footwear discarded or (for that matter) a repurposed shopping trolley. no, this time around it was a most curious insect what i managed to see.
to give a ragged notion of the idea of some pretence of context, one day (mid June) i was out and about in the world, doing my thing (verk) when i stopped for some dinner (lunch, if posh). on going to dispose of waste (wrappers and what have you) in a bin something caught my eye sat upon the trees, bushes, plants or what have you nearby. so of course i took a picture. yes, video too.
admittedly VHS mode with "damaged tape" on the go isn't the best to help identify what i saw, but here we are. pretty sure you can see it clearly enough anyway, just sort of middle off central, as it were. a clearer, or if you will more better, image is below somewhere.
no real idea what kind of insect this is, to be honest. my best guess would be a moth based on the size of the body and wings, but it is with no certainty that i say such. quite interesting to see one of this colour, and so clearly well camouflaged. presumably it remains this colour, and is not a kind of chameleon type of creature. unless, of course, it is.
video above for you, then, which (of course) is in VHS mode. i can assure you this insect (if indeed that is the correct terminology) was very much alive, yet oddly still as i approached to take the pictures and video.
certainly i am aware that i could do one of them "google image searches" (or similar) to find out what sort of insect (or winged creature) this is, but, well, where is the fun in that? there is no more obnoxious or annoying a pr!ck than the type that knowingly goes on any sort of "internet forum" or chat thing and responds to a question with "you could just google that". if that's your approach, why are you on a system where conversation is the crux? slightly worse are those that post "someone else has already asked that". yeah, conversations can be had again, in particular by those who(m) were not part of it the last time it happened.
my best go at a clearer, or if you will "proper", picture above, then. the more i look at it and beyond thinking how magnificent it is the more i am reasonably sure it is a sort of moth.
righty-ho, that's that. likely more than was actually there to write, but done now.
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