Martin's Moths

Back to France today for another butterfly, but there are some moths here too.  The butterfly, below, is one which first deceived me five o...

Two nights of trapping running - a miracle in current weather conditions - and the lamp had the air of a TV costume drama this mornin...

There are plenty more butterflies to come from my week in France, but here's a little return to the world of Yorkshire moths. We ha...

On with the butterflies of Tarn - and please don't feel that you are missing any moths. It's very far from trapping weather here as...

The greatest glory of last week's butterflies in France, for me, was the abundance of fritillaries. I have always loved these, possibly...

Sorry to my moth friends, but this begins a week of butterfly posts. We have just been in France, on the borders of the departments Tarn an...

I've been muttering about looking at the Arches family and here we are at last. I suspect that it's largely because this one, a...

This morning's pictures illustrate what I shall grandly call the Empirical Fallacy. They appear to suggest that if you are a green ...

Please forgive a little diversion from my planned observations on the Arches family. Who can resist the mighty hawk moths? They are far and...

Well, well. We've had an almost perfect June night, apart from a little rain just as I was making the early morning tea. Moth numbers r...

One of my favourite summer moths has defied the continuing miserable weather (cold when not raining, wet when warm). Here it is: the Single...

Back with the tiddlers today because rain has returned overnight, so it's backlog time. I settled back in an armchair last night with m...