Martin's Moths

 For those of us who measure the year's passing in moths rather than months, this is the happy season of the Scarlet Tiger. One of the s...

The moth trap is stowed away temporarily because of rain and cold nights but that hasn't stopped our local insects from coming up with g...

I have been very lucky in seeing moth and butterfly rarities which I never thought would come my way, notably the Death's Head Hawk moth...

  Well, this was a surprise. Penny and I were just enjoying a glass of wine yesterday evening in our conservatory when a loud mixture of buz...

My biggest regular moth beast, the Privet Hawk, flew in two nights ago, kindly coinciding with US guests, a happy hobby of my moths which se...