Martin's Moths

Oh what a lovely moth the Frosted Orange is! And its annual appearance heralds the way for the various yellow and orange Sallows which are a...

  The Pale Eggar has been only an occasional visitor to the lamp here in Oxfordshire and never called when we lived in Leeds. My first was o...

  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...