Blogs on moths

Finally!

Since the age of 11, I have understood the effect of the industrialisation of the UK on wildlife. With the increase in coal...

Outside the back door

What the attraction of our back door is, who knows? Some of you may have read my blog about finding the grass snake drinking...

4 plants and a beautiful, though short stay, visitor.

In the garden I have deliberately allowed a native ivy to colonise the top of my 'atrocity corner'. the flowers provide nectar...

elephant hawk moth

Back in April I cleaned the greenhouse thoroughly and on sweeping up under the staging I found this elephant hawk moth chrysalis....

Who are you?

It was lovely, sunny Saturday afternoon. So I decided to do something in my garden. You know-the usual-bit of weeding, moving...

Special visitor to my garden yesterday!

I was enjoying a sunny gardening afternoon yesterday....unlike today I hasten to add, torrential rain.... when right in front...

Colotois pennaria or The Feathered Thorn Moth

This little chap landed on me. He had come in from the garden. I am saying he because this is a male. The name Feathered...

Big Yellow Moth !

A big yellow moth flew into the kitchen a few nights ago. At first we thought it was a butterfly, but it couldn't be at 10.45...

CAMAFLAGED MOTH

I MEANT TO PUT THIS ON IN THE SUMMER BUT FORGOT ALL ABOUT IT.THIS WAS BACK IN AUGUST....I WAS LOOKING AT ONE OF MY PLANTS...

Hummingbird Hawk moth

Yesterday, the Hunmmingbird Hawkmoth that came for a day last year, visited again...must think it's our open gardens day...Lol!

Hummingbird Moth (Hawk Moth)

Its a few years now since I've seen a Hummingbird Moth. I allow the Centranthus ruber (Valerian) to grow a I know its a favourite...

re caterpillars

I have only just found out that the caterpillars I had in the garden were in fact from the ermine moth- and have had several...

Buff-tip Moth (Phalera bucephala)

This is one of the more common species of British moths although it disguises itself like a twig so is not often seen. The...

Pictorial life of a Hummingbird Hawkmoth

In late July two thousand and six, my wife and I were strolling back from the bird hide at the RSPB Inner Marsh Farm, Burton....

Butterflies and Moths

I thought I'd like to share a few photos of the butterflies and moths which I have been lucky enough to see. It always gives...

Caterpillar damage

Thanks to Spritzhenry answering my question a while, I found that caterpillars have been munching on my spring cabbage! I...