09-Mar-2026 Just the one NFY in the 29/10 - Early Thorn - always a moth that feels difficult to photograph well... Year total now 40 species including early stages #cambsmoths #teammoth

Didn't light up last night but noticed a moth on the outside of a lighted window at around 7.30pm - Engrailed. Quite a surprise - last seen here 1st April 2024, then one in early July 2022, and two in early July 2020 #teammoth #cambsmoths

A nice sunny day here so put the FUN lure out while I sat eating my lunch outside - 5 Pammene giganteana arrived within a 30 minute spell (one landed on the outside of the trap and crawled around a bit before heading off elsewhere) #teammoth #cambsmoths

24-Feb-2026 was agood night with Small Quaker, Twin-spotted Quaker and Diurnea fagella all NFY from a total of 23/7 #cambsmoths #vc29moths #teammoth #mothmatters

Spurred on by feeds for #norfolkmoths, #norfolkbirds I decided to experiment creating a feed for #cambsmoths - post with hashtags #cambsmoths #cambridgeshiremoths or #vc29moths should be included (except - I've never done this before, so... #teammoths #mothmatters) See bsky.app/profile/did:...

First butterfly of the year @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social around with Adonis and Pine ladybirds today

21-Feb-2026 Sawston (VC29) - Easily busiest night of the yearwith 33/11 recorded. Highest scorers: March Moth - 11, Common Quaker - 6, Hebrew Character - 6 Highlights: Acleris cristana NFY A. hastiana Well-marked Tortricodes alternella Black-spotted Chestnut Photos for more details #teammoth

It's nearly 2 years ago that I saw @rlewington2.bsky.social mention this upcoming book on (ex-)X and ordered it. Finally arrived this afternoon and wow! The illustrations are, as ever exquisite. Don't think I thought beyond 'crickets' when I read "and allies" in the title - learnt something already!

Bath time...

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Well, in a fit wild optimism, based mainly on the forecast temperature for 4am tomorrow morning being 5 ⁰C higher than at any point so far this year, I've lit up tonight for the first time in 2026... #teammoth #gottaBeInItToWinIt #itIsProbablyAWogan

Some great species at Abberton today! 3 Tundra Bean Goose, 17 White-fronted Goose, Long-tailed Duck, 5 Smew, 3 Bewick’s Swan, 5 Black-necked Grebe, and 4 Red-crested Pochard among others. #EssexBirding #Birding #UKBirding #WildlifePhotography

"an essential noncoding locus can retain its function over deep evolutionary time without sequence conservation" - makes me wonder what effects are hidden in the millions of bp of non-coding DNA in the human genome

Happy New Year! I think it's going to be a few more days before I light the trap for the first time in 2026...

Decided to light up last night anyway despite the low temperatures and unpleasant forecast. Trap was graced by the presence of a well-marked Satellite, a Turnip and NFY Scarce Umber (581st species so far this year) #GottaBeInItToWinIt #TeamMoth

** BRANCH AGM TOMORROW ** A reminder that the Cambridgeshire & Essex branch's AGM and Members' Day is in-person this year. Foxton Village Hall on Saturday November 8th at 2pm All Cambridgeshire & Essex BC branch members are invited to join us.

'Variations' - CSD Brass autumn concert is Sunday 23rd November at 3pm at At Luke's Church, Victoria road, Cambridge. Tickets and more details from www.adcticketing.com/whats-on/con...

The pariah formerly known as Prince

Cosmopterix scribaiella mines found on Common Reed at RSPB Fowlmere on Saturday - a rare moth in Cambs previously only recorded in 3 10km squares in the north east of the county around the Wicken Fen area

Fascinating video showing the story of the creation of the Kings College wildflower meadow on part of the college lawn youtu.be/8Cywt01POXQ?... @croughley.bsky.social

Finally crawled out of bed mid-morning (it's lurgy-season it would seem) - spotted a moth flying in between the rain (it's also looking a bit like monsoon season out there) - Silver Y - only my 6th this year... Also a female Eristalis pertinax on the next leaf over....

Well that was a waste of the leccy... First blank since 19th February #teammoth #teamnomoths

It's been a long time coming - wow, this is a huge moth! Clifden Nonpareil - 537th species of the year

Phyllocnistis asiatica (F) confirmed by dissection today from 12th June 2025 (to light) South Cambs., VC29. For more info on this relatively new to UK species see leafmines.co.uk/pdfs/newslet... #teammoth

My late Grandfather-in-law (who I never met unfortunately) apparently used to comment that the most useful moth identification book would be one showing them from underneath, as that's all you ever saw of them on your windows. Here's a start - Gold Triangle (62.076 Hypsopygia costalis)

And not been back to Germany since...

I've had the Slender Burnished Brass (Thysanoplusia orichalcea, "ORI") out for a few weeks now (along with the NI Moth lure) - this morning was the first Plusia to give either more than a passing sniff... 6th Dewick's Plusia of the year. One of ths smartest Plusias to my eye #teammoth #mothmatters

Following the Ni Moth earlier in the week, this morning opening the trap revealed Scarce Bordered Straw and Delicate #MigrantMothsUK #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

Ni Moth to light 26-Aug-2025, Sawston, South Cambs., VC29 #teammoth #MigrantMothUK #MothMatters

I think I dimly recall seeing this on the news

Good story! Reminds me of the time workers drove a piling into the bottom of the Chicago River, breaching the deep tunnel and flooding the basements of buildings in the Loop. www.wttw.com/chicago-stor...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Loss in a landscape Swift (3) Roofing slate with gold. Unfinished because I now have to face smashing it so I can then hold its broken shards up to the light. I don’t want to It’s beautiful But it needs to be destroyed… Just like the uk government is doing to nature Damage done needs facing.

Foxglove Pug - Toadflax Pug comparison #VC67moths #Teammoth #Moths

Argyresthia cupressella perched on a leaf on the Crab Apple tree next to my office door late morning. Thought it was NFG - nope! recorded one on 2nd June last year - consistent I guess... (Unlike Obsidentify which came up for 3 different Argyresthia sp. + Green-veined white from 4 photos!)

Grapholita lobarzewskii to the FOR lure late yesterday afternoon

We’re in the “Don’t Look Up” era. Climate change is accelerating, the science is clear and yet denial is thriving. Worse still, parties like Reform UK spread deliberate misinformation while the planet burns. Heat records are tumbling all over the planet on an almost daily basis

Given that we’re a nation of nature lovers, whose conservation charities are among the world's biggest membership organisations, Keir Starmer’s repeated attacks on voters who want to protect the living planet, calling us “time-wasting nimbys”, “blockers” and “zealots”, is frankly idiotic.

The disconnect tween UK public love of nature & Tory/Lab/Reform policies is bizarre. All our "national parks" get truly derisory £60m annual budget. One new car Thames crossing £9BILLION funding. 🙈🙈😪

Celypha lacunana was NFY in the trap this morning as was this female Common Swift. Also the reds were out and about - Cinnabar and Flame Carpet

Spent a bit of time staring at things in the "meadow" were I haven't mowed the lawn much in the last 2-3 years. Plenty of Ox-eye daisy in there, and this evening found my first confirmed Bucculatrix nigricomela perched on the end of a leaf of one. Also 4 Cochylimorpha straminea. 1/2...

@vc40orthops.bsky.social and I are pleased to announce the publication today of the “Micro ladybirds of Britain and Ireland”, in collaboration with the FSC: www.field-studies-council.org/shop/publica...

Another hot sunny day with a gentle breeze saw AND, VES, CUL and FOR clearwing lures deployed again. Slightly surprisingly, late morning I found my first Red-belted Clearwing of the year in the AND pot - a whopping 34 days earlier than my previous earliest...

Last night added 3 carpet species to the year list here in VC29 - Common Marbled, Red Twin-spot (underside of wings checked) and Green....

Very moody skies at dawn this boring (taken at about 4.40am) - moths far outnumbered by flying ants which were everywhere around and in the trap - surprised Alfred Hitchcock didn't think of it as a sequel to birds....

5/5 this morning in the trap - 2 NFY - Common White Wave and my second ever Musotima nitidalis (The first sometime last yearflew from the eggbox, landed long enough for me to see what it was on a nearby plant and then flew again before net, pot or camera could get to it!)

Flash of red in the garden earlier - Ruby Tiger