Martin's Moths

No mothing last night because I was on the 8.03pm from King's Cross back home and I was dog-tired when I crept back in. Age... But I was...

A quiet night, a quiet moth. Although it was warm when I lit the trap at about 8.30 last night, the frost arrived in the small hours and thi...

Here's a coincidence, of the sort Arthur Koestler enjoyed collecting in his later years. Two days ago I featured the Herald, a favourite...

I'm giving the moths a rest this weekend, not just because it's gone colder but to avoid over-trapping. I don't know if this is ...

A couple more arrivals, typical of early Spring. First comes the Early Grey, whose salt-and-pepper colouring makes a welcome change from th...

When I was young, we had a couple of Triumph Herald cars in succession - one of them an insanely high-powered beast for a small saloon, a s...

It suddenly went warm this week and after only intermittent trapping since last October, I decided to turn the light on, just in case anyth...

I'm not specially Royalist, although I can't think of a better head-of-state system offhand, but I hope you'll forgive a few mor...

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 ...