Martin's Moths

For almost all of the 20 years that I have run a moth trap, and indeed going back very much further to my schooldays' butterfly collecti...

I am a sucker for larger moths and it was a treat to find one in the trap this morning, a battered but still energetic Red Underwing. This m...

  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...