A year ago, as I set out to explore the life of Alice Balfour and her moths, I didn't give much thought to what I might find or where it might lead. I wanted to discover more about the moths she encountered and was interested to learn more about the pursuit of natural history in …
Tag: lepidoptera
County Moth Recorder
December. There are moths to be found, but not much in the way of variety or surprises and the disappointment of finding nothing at all is quite high. Alice has very few records from December or January. In December she occasionally records Mottled Umber and Winter Moth and during January Pale-Brindled Beauty also appears. Much …
Expert Opinion
Some of the problems with the small nondescript moths known as Pugs were described in an earlier post, 'Pug Enigmas'. I was struggling to identify the Pugs I was catching in my traps, as happens every summer, but I was also struggling to locate Alice's Pug specimens in the museum collections. They are not in …
Rediscovering the moths of Whittingehame 