Martin's Moths

  Penny had a surprise yesterday. It wasn't until she was reaching 50mph on the way home that she noticed this small, brightly-coloured ...

What a delightful find in the trap this morning: my favourite moth has come back. The Clifden Nonpareil was long my Holy Grail among UK spec...

A curious beetle leads my post today, salvaged from water and a bit dopey but otherwiese apparently unhurt I think that it is a Click Beetle...

I was reading up today about some of the rare close relatives of the Red Underwing which I featured yesterday and a detail about one in part...

  No sooner had I posted my last episode, with its reflections on how jittery the 'underwing' moths tend to be, than a Large Yellow ...

A pleasant surprise at this time of the year is the daylight appearance of one of our larger moths, the initially modest-looking Red Underwi...

                              One of the moths which I left unidentified in my last post turns out to be another new species for my garden, ...