Moth on wall
Channel: armadillozenith
Date: 19/09/2010

On the outside of a walled garden in Kirkcaldy, facing parking spaces, sited where once dwelt Adam Smith, founding father of economics. 

I'm now pretty certain this is a Light Brown Apple Moth, Epiphyas postvittana (Walker, 1863)
http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=4388&detail=true
which is native to Australia but reckoned to have entered the UK in Cornwall in the 1930s. Since then it has been spreading northward, now in Scotland.
 

If so, this would be an interesting indication of it having spread now to this area.

I only noticed later - a Zebra Jumping Spider, Salticus scenicus, notices the moth as it flutters and seems poised with interest. I don't know the outcome..