Mavis Bickle

Aw, thank you ☺️

Oak Spiral 11 x 11”

#BlueSkyArtShow #Round #ArtistsOfBlueSky #WildlifeArt #OakTree

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You talkin t’me?
#MothFaceFriday
Hebrew ‘Characters’
#teammoth

Thanks Chris

👍🏼 Thanks Clive. I’ve only ever had a couple or three but last year’s was obviously a Dark - this one I wasn’t so sure about

Ooh I know, I like mine at least 85%.
And the chocolate 😁

Did a quick shufty round the garden just now and found an extra nfy- Twin-spot Quaker
#teammoth

Yeh, y’reckon? Thanks… I was about 70% for dark 🍫

I don’t think I’d be happy leaving mine (same rig as yours) ‘cos the land is public but has recently come into shared community ownership/management and it definitely needs a few moth surveys 😁

Thank you, I was really hoping you weren’t going to say something ridiculous like - overnight 😅

I’ll be surveying a similar habitat soon… how long did you give it Clive?

A pair of Chestnuts, one of which is giving me grief as to its proper ID… 🥴
Too worn to be definite? #teammoth

A small moth, pale green with black markings, camouflaged on lichens and appropriately named Lichen Tortrix, (Acleris literana)

26/02/26
11:4 CQs, Heb Chs, Chestnuts and
bestest- ‘Mini Merv’
Alt text for proper names 😁
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Lovely job!

Welcome!

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Gorgeous!

A moth that looks like a faery’s coat-hanger On a prunus blossom

One nfy Common Plume amongst 13 Orthosia overnight. Still a bit too breezy I reckon #teammoth

Beautifully done is that

🤔 Bilbo Baggins I think…
at least you can console yourself with the mini merv eh 😁

Grey Shoulder-knot, Lithophane ornitopus lactipennis

Clouded Drab, Orthosia incerta

Hebrew Character, Orthosia gothica

I would say that last night’s trap effort was successful in that the Grey Shoulder Knot finally made itself appear in my garden. 6:4 included my earliest Clouded Drab, 2 Heb Characters and 2 Common Qs #teammoth

A hundredaneleventytwelve beiges? Good grief. Nice haul there though 😊

I’d go with C. senilis too, not that I know much about them but those aerials are well lengthy

You write it, I’ll draw it, we’ll make millions… (of people upset probably) 😅

I’ll just stick this here in case anyone wants to see a better picture of Bad Tufty

God I know, I must be obsessed or something

A little Japanese Monk with his hands in his pockets 🤭 Or if you prefer,Tufted Tortrix (Acleris cristana)

Crap pot shot of Acleris cristana, new for the garden record but a very naughty moth who had me up a ladder in the kitchen this morning… also a Red-Green Carpet for a grand total of 2:2 overnight… VC33 Stroud #teammoth

A cartoon by Happy Toast of Steve and furry & feathery companions who've all met up on the far side of the Rainbow Bridge - Spike the sparrow, Frank the chocolate Labrador, Guinny the JR

❤️‍🩹 Do feel free to look away, it’s not my usual kind of post, but I felt as if I needed to mark the day somehow. I got into moth-ing as a welcome distraction after having lost my partner to Multiple System Atrophy 4 years ago today…
RiP Stevie M - Miss you forever x

Portrait by @happytoast.co.uk 🙏

3 species up now in 2026! 😅 go me!
A pair of Chestnut and another Quaker from last night’s trap in mild but rainy conditions #teammoth