Just 5 adult moths to the garden trap last night, but also this dark hairy caterpillar.. My suggestion is White Ermine, but I guess there co...

Ched George had a male Plumed Prominent to his outside light last night.  This is quite remarkable because Ched lives in Radnage, near Stoke...

I was a bit surprised to find this in the trap this morning, since the flight period is quoted as Jul-Sept. The Moth Atlas histogram shows o...

At 6pm last night I was minding my own business, out trapping in south Bucks to check on whether one of our rarer moth species had started f...

 A reasonable night with a garden record of 10 Sprawler (none of which were actually inside the Skinner trap). Also, this rather plain looki...

December Moth put in its first garden appearance of the year here last night with four individuals turning up, all of them male. December Mo...

I will be pleasantly surprised if anyone can ID this little chap, found in a crack in the plaster at my grandchildren's house and rescue...

Acleris sparsana is an annual visitor to the garden although I only get one or two each season.  I was beginning to give up hope this year ...

  Now things have quietened down (only one moth last night!) I'm going through my photos trying to identify some of those I deferred ide...

There have been no blanks yet here in the garden although it came close on Tuesday night with just a pair of Sprawlers turning up.  Last nig...

I think the top one, from mid-October is a very dark Lunar Underwing, but the wingtip shape looks more like Beaded Chestnut - and it's S...

This brings noteworthy sightings in the garden here at Westcott up-to-date to the end of October.  The period from the 26th through to the 2...

 Captured on 27th Oct, I am assuming a pale, late Vine's Rustic?

 Hi there, I'm a bit confused about these two. The first I make either a very dark form of the variable Beaded Chestnut or the highly co...

Last Sunday I spent just under an hour walking a footpath in the area between Brackley (Northants) and Turweston (Bucks) to try and get some...

Ched George had a Scarce Bordered Straw to his overnight trap last night in Radnage, Bucks.  The only other migrant was a single  Udea ferru...

Last night (21st) was a foretaste of what's to come now, with the temperature falling to 5C before midnight under clear skies with a bri...

 Hi - these two seem to me probably to be White-point and Vine's Rustic, but maybe surprising at this time of year? Comments please! Bes...

Hopefully of passing interest, at least to readers in Buckinghamshire, is this updated map showing the number of moth species recorded in ea...

 An unexpected White Ermine turned up here on Thursday night as well as my tenth Clifden Nonpareil of the year.  Andy Newbold, Sibford Ferri...