Martin's Moths

Although my new mercury vapour bulb shines brightly and sturdily, trapping is still a little intermittent at the moment because of unpredict...

My long-serving mercury vapour lightbulb went phut about three weeks ago, plunging me as well as the garden into gloom. If you go to entomol...

  The nights have gone icy again and the moth trap is largely shunned. By contrast, the days have been sunny, bright and even genuinely warm...

How lovely! Spring weather as early as this; and it has brought that nicely-named moth the Spring Usher to my light. Among the regular compa...

  Sorry, I'm rather behind with this post which describes a multitude of moths, even a horde by February standards, which actually arriv...

  Things are inevitably very quiet in this icy spell but the gradual thaw which began this morning may bring better fortune. In the meanwhil...

It's been a while, with the weather mostly soaking or freezing, but I'm putting the trap out tonight to celebrate today's report...

  I have not been running the moth trap recently because of the cold and damp, though it may play a part in our Christmas illuminations. We ...

A couple of much milder nights have shown that moths may only be around in limited numbers so far as species are concerned but within each s...

It's difficult to entice moths out when conditions are as chilly as those shown above. But there are still some hardy souls flying about...