Thank you Sal and Sharon who came to my rescue and identified last night's beautiful visitor.
It is an Elephant Hawk- Moth.
A very good description of it and it's life cycle can be found at http://www.uksafari.com/elephanthm.htm
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Now imagine walking home alone, in the summer dark, and having one of those blighters come up and land/smack you straight on the chest! Scare the whatsits out of me!
How lucky you are to have friends who can do the identifying. I see they eat fushias. Do you have some of those in our garden? I love them, but too hot where I live.
Beautiful. I suspect many people would run a mile from a moth that size but I love them.
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