#TeamMoth Dragged species count up to 5 last night. However, given that this time last year I was on 2 I’m not panicking yet. It does look like I may need to go on a 200+ night trapping marathon again to beat last year plus getting the trap out and about a lot. First pheromone lures arrived today!

Just 1/1 last night Pale Brindled Beauty #TeamMoth VC13

Of my five Oak Eggar eggs, left behind by a visiting female on 26th August 2025 just the one has survived the Winter in it’s temporary home in my garage. None of them stopped eating the whole time but four didn’t make it. Hopefully the remaining one might survive to adulthood? #TeamMoth

#TeamMoth Actually caught a moth. The AI suggests Acleris umbrana but I’m doubtful so any suggestions please? VC13

As it’s the off season for catching moths I tried a different type of catching today. Managed a brace of Merlangius merlangus. Whiting. Returned to the sea after measurement and photos. #TeamFish

#TeamMoth Putting on record the four species at the top of my 2026 wish list. Ticked off a few belters in 2025 but these still remain outstanding. What’s on your shortlist for the season?

Happy New Year #TeamMoth Just reading the excellent “Enjoying Moths” by Roy Leverton and came across a little section suggesting a New Year’s Resolution that I, and a few others, might make. My apologies for all my previous “gripping” posts of 2025. I’ll try to do better in 2026.

2/2 0NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Phlogophora meticulosa. Angle Shades. Udea ferugalis. Rusty Dot Pearl also visiting.

Some more kWh burnt last night with a single LBAM and a couple of Tachystola acroxantha to show for it. Mild but too windy really. #TeamMoth VC13

It’s probably too cold but Ive put the Actinic out anyway. 🥶 My question is, #TeamMoth ,given my current moth shelf what should I be tracking down to read about Lepidoptera this Winter ?📚🤓

My second December Moth of the year just arrived. Those antennae don’t look particularly aerodynamic so I’m assuming they need to be that big to detect the female’s pheromone at some distance? #TeamMoth

In answer to @wheatersdave.bsky.social ‘ s earlier question-I was still waiting for one of these so it looks like I’m not quite done. Winter Moth NFY #TeamMoth Now just need one of those Northern ones which would be a lifer.

Poecilocampa populi. December Moth. You kept me waiting, Mister ! #TeamMoth VC13 NFY.

A certain well known Irish Entertainer visited for the first time last night ☹️ However I did find a bargain on a certain marketplace website which is on its way for under a tenner !😃 #TeamMoth

6/3 0NFY VC14 #TeamMoth Dryobota labecula. Oak Rustic Udea ferugalis x4 Epiphyas postvittana Hmmn December ☹️

Hawkmoths at Wakehurst Place Glow Up event this evening. Trap is on a timer at home 👍 #TeamMoth

November Statistics #TeamMoth VC13 Moths 266 NFY6 Traps 18 Lifers 1 Year to date 2025 Moths 7945 Species 475 Traps 218 Lifers 90 Lifelist 702 2024 Totals Moths 6036 Species 404 Traps 205 Lifers 78 Lifelist 612 2023 Totals Moths 8823 Species 403 Traps 193 Lifers 147 Lifelist 534

17/7 0NFY VC13 #TeamMoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social Epiphyas postvittana x5 Udea ferugalis x6 Palpita vitrialis x2 Turnip Moth Angle Shades Silver Y White-speck

Seals at Opukepuke NZ 11th March

My five Oak Eggar caterpillars are still chomping away on Bramble leaves but are starting to explore the confines of their Winter quarters. Despite last week’s cold snap they haven’t yet shown signs that they’re stopping eating. Further shed skins suggest they’re 4th instar now. #TeamMoth

6/3 0NFY VC13 #TeamMoth 4RDPs B. adustella Oak Rustic Very wet but definitely getting warmer.

My Hawkmoth life list increased by one in 2025 the long awaited Striped. Shown below are: Elephant. Hummingbird. Small Elephant Privet. Striped. Spurge(Spain 2024) Convolvulus. Oak(France 2023) Lime. Pine. Eyed. #TeamMoth VC13 Of the U.K. regulars no EyedHM this year.

2025 has been a bit of a strange one for flight times & I know I said I wasn’t trapping tonight but you know how it is….. Wogan avoided Chrysodeixis chalcites. Golden Twin-spot. 😳 VC13 #TeamMoth

#TeamMoth Anyone clever enough to put a name to any of these moths attracted to outside lights in Chobe, Botswana from a few years back? Resorting to trawling unidentified moth photos now. 🤷‍♂️

Reading Atropos No76 featuring an interesting article of Julian Clarke’s account of finding Tamarisk Peacock.Chiasmia aestimaria in Sussex in 2024. It reminded me that I may have trapped one on holiday in the South of France in 2023. Tamarisk grows quite near here so one to watch out for? #TeamMoth

It was chilly this morning at @nationaltrust.org.uk Sheffield Park with a North wind blowing. At the bridge between Ten Foot Pond & Middle Lake the view was worth wrapping up for. #NTSheffieldPark #Sussex

Mottled Umber, just my second of the year and a nicely marked one at that. #Teammoth VC13

Just like buses, just after one comes along another follows right behind! #TeamMoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social Second ever and definitely a different individual as last night’s is still awaiting release.

34/14 3NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Eublemma parva. Small Marbled Conistra vaccinii. Chestnut Monopis crocicapitella. Also visiting: Golden Twin-spot Oak Rustic x2 P. vitrialis x5

Looks like a lifer! #TeamMoth Get those traps out my friends!

Possible NFY just arrived? Monopis crocicapitella ? #TeamMoth @mothiduk.bsky.social

25/12 VC13 #TeamMoth Cyclophora puppillaria. Blair’s Mocha Also visiting U. ferugalis x2 P.vitrialis x3 Turnip moth Oak Rustic x3 Possible very worn Chestnut awaiting CMR decision would be NFY but fished out of a puddle so unlikely to be agreed.

It’s quite mild still here so the trap will be going out for a while yet. #TeamMoth

It’s coming up to the end of the mothing season and the trap is out. Somehow I doubt I’m going to find anything close to any of this selection of my 2025 lifers in the trap . But it’s been a good year so I’ll count my blessings instead. #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

Trawling through my butterfly photos I now find that I have seen, photographed and recorded 100 species in total. Many more to go of course. #butterfly #butterflies #iNaturalist

19/7 0NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Golden Twin-spot Turnip Moth x2 Palpita vitrialis Oak Rustic Green-brindled Crescent Udea ferugalis x8 LBAM x5

The Herdwicks are doing their best to Conservation Graze some of the steeper slopes on Mill Hill, Shoreham. Hopefully this will allow some of the natural downland flora to return & improve the habitat for Adonis Blue & Chalkhill Blue butterflies. @southdownsnp.bsky.social @bcsussex.bsky.social

36/9 0NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Turnip Moth Palpita vitrialis x3 Double-striped Pug Vine’s Rustic LBAM x5 Rusty Dot Pearl x22 Green-brindled Crescent Golden Twin-spot (again !) Crocidosema plebejana Wetter than I’d hoped early evening so not very busy.

38/14 1NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Epirrita dilutata agg. November Moth agg. Numbers boosted by 15 Udea ferugalis Also visiting P. vitrialis x2 Scarce Bordered Straw and Golden Twin-spot

20/12 1NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Pictured are Colotois pennaria. Feathered Thorn and Endotricha flammealis. Rose-flounced Tabby. Also visiting Olive-tree Pearl x3. Rusty DP x5. SSD. Mottled Umber (NFY). Red-line Quaker. Lesser YU. Beaded Chestnut. Turnip Moth. LBAM x3 Oak Rustic.

Two years ago this very day 🇦🇺

17/10 0NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Chrysodeixis chalcites Golden Twin-spot Number 6 for 2025 🤷‍♂️

Asteroscopus sphinx. The Sprawler NFY No 461 VC13 Not seen here since 2021 and only my 2nd ever. Arriving at 5.30pm it is perhaps my earliest moth of interest for quite a while.

Between the showers this morning NTSheffield Park @nationaltrust.org.uk

#TeamMoth VC13 October Statistics Moths 879 Species NFY 8 Lifers 2 Traps 28 Year to date Statistics Moths 7679 Species NFY 460 Lifers 89 Traps 200

Chrysodeixis chalcites Golden Twin-spot. Just arrived VC13 5th in 2025 #TeamMoth

16/11 0NFY VC13 #TeamMoth 198th night of trapping this year produced nothing new but I did catch an Oak Rustic Dryobota labecula with brown highlights, rather than the white highlights type, neither of which visit me very often.

Help me out #TeamMoth. Which Thera is this one ? VC13

It’s pretty chilly out there but the wind has dropped and it’s not raining so the MV Robinson is out and the blank has already been avoided. VC13 #TeamMoth

#TeamMoth It’s a bit chilly but the wind has dropped and it’s stopped raining for a while so the traps are out. Still waiting for that migrant lifer after those favourable winds @migrantmothuk.bsky.social VC13