Face downward in one of the bird baths this evening - the tiniest of cream and very pale fawn moths. This image makes it look huge, but it wasn't a lot larger than my thumbnail. Identifying moths isn't really my thing (though I seem to have been doing rather a lot of it this week), but I think this is probably Eucaterva variara - its caterpillars feed on the desert willow, and there's one of those very close by. They flutter around - if you blow this up even more you can see the pollen on its thorax - like the good pollinators that they are, so are probably happy with my gardening efforts ...
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