Martin's Moths

Dear me, I seem to have been rather inert. On this blog, at any rate, but truth to tell, the nights are getting colder and the morn...

We let off our fireworks last night and, as clouds of cordite-scented smoke billowed around, reflected on the possible effect on the m...

The Satellite moth spends the whole winter lurking about but is only usually tempted to the light trap by mild weather.  Accordingly, t...

Epiphyas postvittana  cosying up to macro Blair's Shoulder-knot The last ten days have seen a sprinkling of micr-moths snuggli...

Large Wainscot December moth A fellow enthusiast, Steve Trigg, tried an experiment at his Thames Valley home earlier this week. ...

The beautiful and imaginative names of UK moths have often been applauded here, but there is an exception - when it comes to months. T...

The weather's return to lovely, mild nights continues to bring a good number and variety of moths, among them this natty little Sp...

Charles Darwin is immortal on account of The Origin of Species but he is also pretty famous as a lifelong invalid (of the sort who of...