Martin's Moths

  Things have been busier in recent weeks than they will have seemed from my inefficiency at updating this blog. Although Autumn is quieter ...

My granddaughter is continuing her relationship with the Pale Tussock moth after breeding a couple successfully last year. She came home fro...

  I will never tire of the Merveille du Jour which lifts the relatively quiet Autumn nights in the moth trap with its genuinely marvellous c...

I am trying to discover whether the Box Moth, by far the most successful species in my trapping this year, eats anything other than the pl...

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...