Why Moths?

Not my choice! I am the gardener; it was my husband, an avid birdwatcher who in 2014 decided he wanted a moth trap. I had no idea there was a jewel box of delights flying around my garden, nature’s hidden pollinators busy while we sleep. If he had told me ten years later, that he would have recorded over six hundred different moths from the large to minute, I would have never believed him.

This section of the website will start in earnest from 2nd January 2025 when he will reveal the moths that arrived on the first night of the new year. Be warned it could be an empty trap! Then you can follow the moths that visit us throughout 2025.

Until then I will post some highlights from over the last decade, and with his assistance explain how moths are trapped, and released after identification. Be warned not all moths are boring beige and only three species, whose larvae are the culprits that eat our wool out of over two thousand species that fly at night and day across the British Isles.