Martin's Moths

Still no return of the Hummingbird Hawk moth, as I make my way through the garden's weeds, but here's a nice Small Tortoiseshell to ...

This is a terrific time of the year for the gardener, as swathes of destruction c an be carried out without much fear of harming little s...

I completed my regular hawk moth tally for the year yesterday when I looked up from weeding and saw a Hummingbird Hawk moth nectaring on the...

The moths have gently rebuked me for my rather grumpy observation in my last post that most of the arrivals at this time of the year are bro...

I was doing some long-overdue weeding in the vegetable patch yesterday when part of a tatty marigold stem which I was tugging appeared ...

Hello all and apologies for the interruption in service while I carried out my sponsored row from Oxford to London.  Thanks ever so much to ...

In case you need reminding, this is what happens to a cream tea on a sunny afternoon in England. It wasn't ours, fortunately. The c...

Pride of place this morning goes to a ladybird, not on its own merits pretty though it is, but because my iPad Mini came good for once ...