The UK, along with countries around the world, is on "lockdown". We must avoid contact with other humans. We can only leave our homes for essential activity. Whilst necessary to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 virus, these orders come with many far-reaching and frightening ramifications. Social isolation, broken businesses, loss of jobs, events we …
Tag: wildlife
Early moths
Which moths did Alice find out and about in East Lothian in January, and are they still to be found in 2020? In the museum's box file containing her diary is a small soft-backed notebook. Each page has been devoted to a month of the year and lists some species of moth to look out …
Equinox
Equinox. Equal night. The date when day length and night length are equal? Actually not quite for us in the UK. It is the point in time when the position of the sun is directly above the celestial equator. This year the autumnal equinox was 0850h on 23rd September, when we in East Lothian were …
Rediscovering the moths of Whittingehame 