Going through the garden moth trap this morning, I was pleased to find the second Privet Hawk Moth of the year. I posed it on the dead willow for a photo, when the nearby bird dropping sprouted legs and started to move....![](/psl/sites/www.brc.ac.uk.psl/files/blog/user-43/IMG_0132.JPG)
Closer inspection revealed the rather funky Platyrhinus resinosus - a new weevil and very very cool to boot. Sadly, once it clocked me, it went into bird dropping mode.![](/psl/sites/www.brc.ac.uk.psl/files/blog/user-43/IMG_0116.JPG)
It is amazing how much...