Martin's Moths

  This is the first time in all my 73 years that I have seen a Hummingbird Hawk moth at rest, other than a couple of specimens which have co...

  How encouraging that we live in a world where young enthusiasts for moths and butterflies, or indeed other insects, can clad themselves in...

It was my great-niece Connie who spotted it - a Red Admiral strangely poised in mid-air, like a kestrel but without its wings moving. Upside...

  Ten years ago, it would have been a big surprise to open the light trap and find the guest shown above. But the Gypsy Moth has staged a dr...

  I have had plenty of excellent moth surprises since we moved from Leeds in 2013 and I re-lit the lamp to shine just north of Oxford. New h...

After the glory of a male Holly Blue with open wings, described in the last post, I've now been lucky enough to find a female of the spe...