Martin's Moths

A curious insect flew directly over our house last week - the sinister-looking Trumpocopter carrying its bizarre occupant to supper at ...

This wonderful Summer has settled down into an agreeable mixture of torpor, with aged gents like me happily flattened by the heat, an...

The hawk moths are proving wonderfully long-lived this blissful summer, as indeed are moths of all sorts (not to mention the caterpillars bo...

There are SO many moths about in this wonderfully warm weather which coincides with the annual high noon for the insects very satisfact...

Caterpillar breeding has reached unprecedented levels of care and volume here, and in the various foster-families who are kindly rear...

Penny and I have just had a lovely week in southern Greece, re-aquainting ourselves with the Swallowtails and Scarce Swallowtails whose abu...

I put the trap under a large and fragrant mock orange last night, a shady spot where I seldom try to trap. The results were little different...

We've been busy today entertaining friends for an afternoon themed on the Blandford Fly , one of the few serpents in our paradise (...

The moth trap works on the same principal as a lobster pot or crayfish trap, with a funnel tapering inwards to its narrower end to admit ...