Martin's Moths

The moth-watching year is winding down gently but at least it goes out with an interesting colour predominant: green. I featured the lusciou...

I had a lucky break this morning after I thought that I'd have to satisfy myself with a brief discourse on the different colourways of t...

I am thinking of opening a small theme park after my ninth Clifden Nonpareil arrived last night. It was the first not to enter the trap; I s...

The title of this post occurred to me when I turned over a rather battered eggbox to reveal the sight in my top picture. There is something ...

Tonight I celebrate the first anniversary of my first-ever Clifden Nonpareil, a moth which for most of my life, I thought that I would never...

This poor little creature looks to me like a moth which suffered problems in the chrysalis or in hatching but it was indomitable in spite of...

  Amid the excitements of the twin Clifden Nonpareils yesterday, there was the further mystery of this quite substantial moth tucked snugly ...