Martin's Moths

Two Feathered Thorns came last night and you could be forgiven for thinking on first glance that they might be different species of moth. Th...

As happened last year, I find myself making the mistake of thinking that the season is over and then being surprised new arrivals. I put the...

  As an epilogue to my last post, I thought that I should show you a photo of the only other time that I have seen a Two-tailed Pasha, on th...

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...