Speckled wood

Yes, another butterfly. More transformation? We can only hope. You know, when they're in cocoons, they turn into mush, a liquid cocktail of proteins and genes, that then becomes a butterfly. I feel like I have been mush for decades.

And if I do transform, it'll just be into yet another bloody instar.. Harlequin ladybirds, which came here from Asia and are now very common, go through four instars. Jesus. I'll die before something butterfly-like happens.

On butterflies... well, moths, I saw a clearwing moth in the garden. They have, well, clear wings. I think it was a white-barred clearwing, but I can't be certain.

In the woods, I saw wood speckled, or perhaps dappled, with light.

Very beautiful.

"Dappled" was the answer to one of the cryptic crossword clues: I think it was "bishop eats fruit covered in dots".

"Dappled Silk" was the name of one of my model horses - a dapple grey Arabian mare.

And "dapple-dawn-drawn falcon" is in the first line of "Windhover" by Gerard Manley Hopkins. I bet the word's in "Pied Beauty" too.