I saw two Jersey Tiger moths (Euplagia quadripunctaria), an exotic-looking, nationally scarce species and suspected immigrant, near Streatham Hill station yesterday evening - before dusk. It is cited as being active by day.
The first one was spotted by me, on the upper side of an Ivy leaf in a scrappy little car park above the west end of the station on Sternhold Avenue. The second was first noticed by another member of the group I was with, sitting on Lime, just over the other side of the railway line by a slip road to the rail depot off Drewstead Road.
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/images/insects/insect_jerseytigermsp2.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/Moth/440/Moth.html%3FMothId%3D168&usg=__ZBFymeqnj8qSeSToGAwfxb7VXtM=&h=218&w=300&sz=57&hl=en&start=20&tbnid=h5jI-Jx3tiVkMM:&tbnh=84&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djersey%2Btiger%2Bmoth%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den
I was in Streatham to help with a South London Botanical Institute
http://www.slbi.org.uk/
survey of some waste ground in the area. This didn't turn up a great deal of interest, the most notable specimens being some 'escaped' Erigeron karvinskianus, Campanula persicifolia and Leycesteria formosana on Blairderry Rd, the latter two behind the closed cinema, a non-native, but unidentifiable Clematis on the railway embankment and a Wall Lettuce in a garden on Drewstead Rd.
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