11th July 2005 - the 1st one

Fehérpettyes álcsüngolepke

 This is the first moth I saw on my first visit to Hungary on my first ever walk in the Hungarian woods with Dani & Benedek. An impressive spotted beast with orange banding and a velvety black body. I didn't know what it was and the rather disappointing photograph I took didn't help me figure it out after I had got home. I guessed it was perhaps some sort of Zygaenid but not one we had in northwest Europe. I was wrong on both counts.