Martin's Moths

Here's a quartet of last night's arrivals and lovely moths they are too. The White Ermine, bottom left with my wedding ring and ...

It's always a good moment when the year's first hawk moth arrives, specially for superficial moth enthusiasts such as myself f...

Another crop of interesting moths came last night as the lovely spell of weather continued. The one at the top is new to me - at least,...

News today of an unexpected and - for me - exciting consequence of Thursday night's visit by a female Emperor moth.  By happy chance...

I had a nice reminder this morning of why moth-trapping is infectious. After my extremely dawdly start to this year's trapping, the ...

My last post about processionary moths has brought me another startling photo, left, this time from  a cousin and his partner who encounte...

There are lots of reports in the moth world at the moment of a pest species, the Oak Processionary moth, which foresters greatly disli...

Hooray! I have finally summoned up the energy and found the time to set out the lamp for the first time since early December. My lethargy ha...

Happy New Year , belatedly. The moth trap remains closed-down and I am slowly working through my records in an armchair by the fire. But m...

Hi one and all and a Merry Christmas plus all warm wishes for the New Year. The trap is packed away and I shall spend the next month or so...

It was a lovely evening last night, crisp and clear with a swollen moon presiding over the garden. I had a relatively leisurely morning i...

I haven't lit the lamp since my last post, three weeks ago, because that night the fuses went in the house and because it had rained,...

A week has gone by, of cold weather mostly, with rain moving in whenever the temperatures rise a little. It was so damp the other night ...

I haven't been putting the trap out much recently on account of the cold weather and darker nights, and this will now be the case unt...

Two nights ago, just before the cold snap arrived, I found this attractive pair on the cowl of the dew-covered moth trap. The lower one...

A solitary arrival three nights ago, the first time that this has been the case for a while. It's a handsome moth, though: the Spraw...