Martin's Moths

Human features can be deceptive, for example when a face seen directly from in front looks well-proportioned but a sideways view reve...

A visit to London yesterday on grandchild duty brought me another new moth: the Small Dusty Wave, above, which was slumbering on an area...

No doubt you remember the story of Moses in the bulrushes. Had there been an entomologist involved in the Scriptures, he or she might have ...

It was nice to spend a bit of time this morning with an Angle Shades, one of the most distinctive of UK moths with its swept-back win...

A fine new moth for the year arrived last night - this Copper Underwing (or it may be a Svensson's Copper Underwing, a species so s...

I am regularly asked, when the conversation turns to moths, how long they and butterflies live. The answer, inevitably, is complicate...