"Six-Spot Burnet Moth"

Found this moth on a "Protected Road Side Verge" not far from where I live. I was on my push-bike when I noticed it on a flower head - it remained perched there for me whilst I shot off about 10 shots - this was the best.

Roadside verges throughout Britain cover an enormous area, constituting many thousands of hectares of habitats which are corridors for wildlife. They are often the only remaining fragments of those habitats which once characterised an entire landscape now turned to highly efficient agricultural production. If biodiversity in the wider countryside is to be allowed any chance of survival it is from these linear reserves that recolonisation will come.