As mentioned several days ago, we are now going to suspend this blog and move to Facebook.  We realise that this won't please everyone a...

The actinic lights here at Westcott had mixed fortunes during the first half of March, with some blank nights at the beginning (1st, 2nd) as...

 Hi, I'm hoping I've got in under the wire before this excellent facility moves to Facebook. Here are two species that turned up a c...

As more and more people seem to be having trouble contributing to (or in quite a few cases now, even simply viewing) this blog, we feel that...

 Despite being "widespread across the region", this was the first here for four years. A very smart moth!

 This was trapped on Otmoor this morning. Wondering if it might be a form of Acleris hastiana?? Thanks, Linda.

With permission from BBOWT, one of my half a dozen sites for regular "away" trapping this year is, once again, Finemere Wood in Bu...

We're back to chilly nights again now but at least that slightly warmer spell during the second half of February brought out a few seaso...

 Found indoors yesterday, I am pretty confident that this is Mompha jurassicella , rather than bradleyi/divisella. It is dull overall; the ...

Last year we had a total of around 200 Bee Moths in the house, (to my wife's dismay!). Perhaps this is the vanguard of another invasion!...