Martin's Moths

For the first time in ages, the trap was empty last night. Not a soul in the eggboxes after freezing temperatures and a lot of Guy Fawkes...

Things really are getting a bit fag-endish now (though I hope that if I say that, the moths may lay on a few fireworks when I put the ...

I positioned the trap in the veg patch last night and it seemed to enjoyed itself travelling back in time. For the first time in a fo...

The other day on the Upper Thames Moths blog , that sacred text which helps to keep me on the straight and narrow, its supremo Dave W...

Unusually, given the weather, I pottered out to inspect this morning's moths in my striped pyjamas - familiar and I hope beloved so...

  Our visitor in search of a Merveille du Jour - see last post - departed without a sighting, albeit very pleased with the particularly ...

A very nice friend has been to stay after an interval of almost exactly two years. Back in 2014, he had his introduction to that parago...

You can get a bit blase when you've blogged about the same subject for years, but there's also a sort of reassurance in the predi...

Russet, amber and yellow are the colours of Autumn in our landscape. For today's main moth, the season's colour is green. H...

Rain last night and rain again this morning; conditions could hardly be less encouraging for moths (and the people who study them).  And...