Living on a small holding in rural Wales means I frequently have closed encounters with all sorts of nature.

We have a large pond with a family of Canada Geese that return every year to have their babies. This year the parents had six goslings. We feed them corn a couple of times a day but mostly they find their own food.

This week I found a big hairy white butterfly, mummy told me that it was a moth and we talked about some of the differences between butterflies and moths:

• Moths are usually thicker and more furry in appearance than butterflies
• Moths tend to come out at night, whereas butterflies usually come out during the day
• Butterflies usually have club-shaped antennae while most moths have feathery or tapering ones.
• What I found was actually a Puss Moth.