Martin's Moths

Hello again! There's a while to go 'til mothing starts in ernest in April, but I'm thinking of lighting the lamp one of these ...

And now, happy New Year! And here on our window sill is one of a smattering of Winter Moths which must have been thoroughly confused by the ...

Hello everyone! I hope you have a marvellous Christmas and all warmest wishes for 2011. This is the American Christmas Moth which I'm p...

The w eat her is doing a Sword of Damocles act over the North of England at the moment, although the fact that the Daily Express today fore...

Penny and I were walking back last night from our car, which we're leaving at the end of our steep and windy road during the snow, when ...

What happens to bees in winter? In the case of this one, nothing more. The rest is silence. I spotted it on our road, a sad little speck in...

I recall from school the value of proving a negative. That's what I seem to have done last night, when I put out the trap to see if any...

We had our friends the Webbs from Honley and their family round for a Sunday roast yesterday. (See the post on 27th August for the scale and...

Right, we really will stop now. The weather has chilled again and the mornings are getting dark. I'll leave you for 2010 with this fine ...

I'll stick my neck out this morning and say that this arrival last night (above) is a Green-brindled Crescent, although nothing about it...

Back in Leeds, back at the trap. Lots of interesting visitors thanks to the warmth. Just one of them for now: only a Red-Green Carpet, but i...

I was going to say that our revels now are ending. But even in the Lake District, the weather has been astonishingly mild and I'm minded...

I walked from Boot to the Jaws of Borrowdale yesterday, over Scafell and Scafell Pike.  Fifteen words to describe eight hours in Paradise, e...

A bright flutter of colour sprang up yesterday outside the Screes pub in Nether Wasdale when Penny and I cycled up for lunch. After this sum...

After yesterday's tick, it seemed only proper to investigate the River Mite, which flows into the Esk not far below Boot. We were helped...

Yesterday was caterpillar today. Today it's ticks. To be accurate, one tick, which fastened itself to the shapely leg of one of our Lake...

Here is my son's Charles Darwin doll (no, no, we weren't that much of pushy parents, it's a fairly recent joke). He's sittin...