Martin's Moths

Oh what a lovely moth came this week! A Scarce Silver Lines which is one of the greenest of the UK's relatively few green moths and very...

Another of the early Autumnal Sallow family arrived last night: the Orange Sallow with its simple colouring but very delicate pattern of sle...

The family of mochas and waves, known scientifically as the Sterrhinae, has been very good to me this year. The Mocha itself, a moth for whi...

The Yellow-tails are back with a vigorous second generation; a surprising name for a moth which on first inspection turns out to be largely ...