Editor's note: Christina Brodie has shared a wide variety of drawings and paintings from Nature in Micscape. In this latest series she has studied insect life attracted to a natural trap, a skylight as shown below. She shares a variety of drawings and paintings of these subjects, part 1 of this gallery is below. All images are copyright Christina Brodie and should not be used without her permission.

Technical details, Christina writes:

Pencil HB 0.7mm #2, + very basic palette of cheap paint watercolours.

No magnifying aid; I removed my glasses to draw finer details, as I now have a better reading prescription than previously!

The microenvironment within which the study of these moths (live and dead moths) was within a building with high skylights which are natural moth traps, with a lit ledge situated halfway between the roof and the floor.

I managed to observe/ record over 60 moths and identify about 40. I have suggested IDs gained from Internet research.

Skylight and windowsill.  Moths, Canary-Shouldered Thorn (Ennomus alniaria), Snout (Hypena proboscidalis), Orange Swift (Triodia sylvina), Sallow (Atethemia centrago).

 

Left, Cranefly against the light with Blood-vein moth (Timandra conae) + unknown cranefly.

 

Detailed painting and sketch of European hornet, Vespa crabro.

 

Left includes - Small Magpie moth (Abraxas grossulariata), common wasp (Vespula vulgaris), Dark Arches moth (Apamea monoglypha)
Right includes - White Plume moth (Pterophorus pentadactyla).

 

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