Peach blossom

The peach blossom (Thyatira batis) is a moth of the family Drepanidae.

[1] It is found throughout Europe and east through the Palearctic to Japan and Mongolia.

It is a striking species with brown forewings marked with five pink and white blotches which do rather resemble the petals of peach blossom.

The species flies at night, in western Europe in June and July sometimes with a partial second brood emerges in late August and September.

The larva is brown with white markings and several humps along its back.

Illustration from John Curtis 's British Entomology Volume 5