Martin's Moths

Powdered Quaker Catches in the trap continue to be modest on these cold and damp nights. Yesterday evening our house and neighbours...

                 One of the ways to tell a  butterfly from a moth (apart from browsing my handy guide  by clicking on the tab above)...

Today's picture comes thanks to a sharp-eyed friend of mine called Daisy, who comes to church with her younger brother (lowering the...

  I am delighted to report more excitements on the Imperial front after the double hatching in the Palace nursery (actually a Tupperw...

Exciting news: two children of the magnificent female Emperor moth which visited the trap in early May 2014 have finally hatched. As rec...

There is an understandable feeling among many of us that wildlife enjoys green fields and rolling hills as much as we humans do. This ...

My mind is more on our day-old grandson than the moths, but I put the trap out last night nonetheless, to see if anything memorable m...

Almost a month has gone by since I last set the moth trap, but I couldn't resist the question which forms the headline to today...

My Dad used to enjoy quoting the proverb: "March comes in like a roaring lion, and goes out like a little lamb." This yea...

Hello again! I've been elsewhere for the best part of a month; not physically but in the sense of having my attention taken up by ...

The wintertime lethargy of this blog is interrupted again by Penny's discovery of a sad little prisoner inside one of those tw...

Happy New Year belatedly, and apologies for the sluggish pace of the blog at this eventful time of the year. Eventful in human terms ...

Ring out the old! And this year we can bid farewell to 2015 with an actual moth rather than reminiscences of past triumphs or disaster...