These colourful little moths can be found on any of the Mint family and so they love our herb bed with its Spearmint, Lemon balm and Black peppermint while the wild Water Mint is equally attractive. They fly at during the day or night and we seem to have two common but very similar species of Mint Moth at the moment.
(me)
Pretty sure that these are Pyraustra aurata with the one big golden spot (Chris Lowe)
(Mark Hart)
(Tony Houston)
and I reckon that thees two are Pyraustra purpuralis with the brighter colouring and broken golden band of spot
Howard Vaughan, Information Officer