Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Wonderful to have this hornet mimic Volucella zonaria (I think that’s right) on our ivy - the flowers are buzzing with insects in the late summer sun #ukflies @suillia.bsky.social 120
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Just ten common species in the wood last night but appreciating the beauty of creatures we shouldn’t take for granted: Dusky Sallow, Oak Hook-tip, Light Emerald (VC61) #teammoth 060
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Somebody kindly gave me a copy of this much-reprinted botanical classic recently. Nice to find some field notes inside it from 1894 #botany 130
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Could you please help with this small plume moth - is it Hemp Agrimony Plume? VC61 8/8 Thank you! @mothiduk.bsky.social #teammoth 110
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 17/07/2026These two footmen are confusing me - have I got a July Orange and a Dingy or are angle/lighting affecting my judgement? Thanks as ever @mothiduk.bsky.social #teammoth VC61 last night 220
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 10/07/202649 spp in the Fulford VC61 garden last night. Two micros apparently new to 10km sq: Cydia fagiglandana and the adventive Tachystola acroxantha (Australian Orange-tip). Do these look good please @mothiduk.bsky.social and would I get away with Mottled Rustic? Many thanks! #teammoth 140
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 10/07/2026A preliminary look through last night’s joyous Fulford garden catch: Buff Arches, Dusky Sallow, a rather surprising Latticed Heath (nfg), Ruby Tiger… #teammoth @bcyorkshire.bsky.social 070
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Am I right with these please, from a site near Naburn VC61 3/7: Cnephasia longana, Phycita roborella, Acrobasis repandana? Thank you so much @mothiduk.bsky.social #teammoth 100
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Busy night in VC61 - 80spp - G. sociana nfs and these too. I’m sure you’re busy too @mothiduk.bsky.social but I think these are right: Paraswammerdamia nebulella, Mompha ochraceella, Scythropia crataegella, Argyresthia pruniella @doublekidney.bsky.social #teammoth Thanks to all! 160
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Rather worn but do I have Double Square-spot and Purple Clay here please @mothiduk.bsky.social VC61 23/6? #teammoth 250
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Wonderful display of viper’s bugloss near the Millennium Bridge in York today - the year’s first Ringlets flying in abundance. This area used to be mown flat when we moved here - wonderful what a bit of local rewilding can do… @bcyorkshire.bsky.social 120
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Nice to find Beautiful Carpet and Blotched Emerald - one of my favourite moths - in VC61 last night 17/6. But this snazzy tortrix - Archips xylosteana - was new to the site and rather stole the show #teammoth @bcyorkshire.bsky.social 0120
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Is this Dusky Brocade please? @mothiduk.bsky.social VC61 17/6 Thank you so much! 110
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Great to have this fabulous publication land on the doormat this morning - and just after a Hummingbird Hawk-moth flew past me in the garden #teammoth @bcyorkshire.bsky.social 2141
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 26/05/202643spp last night VC61. Please can I check Dark Spectacle and Cream Wave as they are new to the site. The latter seems new to 10km sq. Thank you so much @mothiduk.bsky.social #teammoth 180
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 23/05/202664/37 last night in VC61. Badger down to one foot (!) Almost as many cockchafers as moths but 5 potential firsts for the site including Anchylis mitterbacheriana, Sandy Carpet - and I think that’s Rivulet rather than Small Rivulet… #teammoth @doublekidney.bsky.social Please say if I’m mistaken! 1120
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Would these pass muster, please @mothiduk.bsky.social ? Phyllonorycter trifasciella, Homoeosoma sinuella, Argyresthia spinosella. VC61 22/5 #teammoth 140
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I’ve just found this micro on tansy in VC61. Is it a Dichrorampha sp? I’m not sure it’s possible to go further than that with a photo; many of these seem scarce in Yorkshire. Any thoughts appreciated @mothiduk.bsky.social @doublekidney.bsky.social 200
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Rather a lovely way to finish a day’s walking along the Yorkshire coast #teammoth 0211
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Fascinating to find this at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge. I wonder who first had the idea of using them to record moths… #teammoth 070
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Fine dawn to dusk explore of Holderness yesterday after an early start at Bempton. Garden Warblers and Lesser Whitethroats new migrants for the year… 010
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Trying out my rather wonderful new fly book - would I get away with female Eupeodes corollae for this one, please? #UKFlies @suillia.bsky.social 110
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 09/04/2026A couple of hours in woods south of York last night (VC61) brought 53 moths of 15 spp, including this Lunar Marbled Brown. Satellite, Twin-spotted Quaker and Acleris hastiana new to the site #teammoth 0140
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Chuffed with this. Full of wonder. And good to see an old friend this week 020
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Heslington East, Low Lane late afternoon 10/3: Woodcock put up on edge of rough field; Little Owl @yorkbirding.bsky.social 1142
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Feeling like the mothing season is over, so nice to see this Mottled Umber on a kitchen wall in Naburn last night (VC61)… #teammoth 0110
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Pink-barred Sallow from the woods last night #teammoth 0100
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Two Epinotias among last night’s 20 spp (7/9 VC61): ramella is common and widespread; trigonella a local and apparently retreating birch roller - this one was first 10k sq record #teammoth @bcyorkshire.bsky.social @doublekidney.bsky.social 0151
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Just one Rush Veneer, but a beautiful day all the same… 020
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 26/08/20253 from our York garden (VC61, 25/8). Is that Grey Chi?? I read they are much reduced in numbers especially on lower ground…Vine’s Rustic? Spruce Carpet? (sorry I struggle with these). Many thanks @mothiduk.bsky.social @doublekidney.bsky.social 130
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Nice to find this a minute ago when checking the trap! It’s absolutely fresh / what a creature! @bcyorkshire.bsky.social @doublekidney.bsky.social 160
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Not far from Stamford Bridge in Yorks: a wonderful sight and sound that we encounter far too infrequently these days… 130
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Just 20 spp in a couple of hours last night (VC61, 22/8) but three were new to the site: Pinion-streaked Snout, this thinly-distributed grass moth Agriphila geniculea and a delightful Lesser Swallow Prominent… @doublekidney.bsky.social @bcyorkshire.bsky.social 020
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Is this Agriphila selasella please? @mothiduk.bsky.social VC61 15/8 110
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Apologies for the woeful photo, but I’m thinking this is Cedestis gysseleniella. To light, in pine wood, VC61 18/7 Thank you as ever @mothiduk.bsky.social 110
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Does this look good for Mere Wainscot please? VC61 last night @mothiduk.bsky.social @doublekidney.bsky.social #teammoth 181
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Nice indeed to find this rare and local spindle feeder last night: Scorched Carpet. First for site/10km sq. VC61. @doublekidney.bsky.social @bcyorkshire.bsky.social #teammoth 0201
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Is this Satin Beauty please - a female I assume? @mothiduk.bsky.social 120
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Buff-tip, VC61, 12/7. Astonishing creature! #teammoth @bcyorkshire.bsky.social 0230
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Definitely worth looking for Purple Hairstreak coming down to nectar in this hot weather (poor shot of one from 27th June in a local wood) - amazed to find one nectaring this morning on buddleia in our York garden. Not often one gets a garden butterfly tick! @bcyorkshire.bsky.social 160
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Difficult ones I think: is this enough for Bactra lancealana and Blastobasis adustella (wing: 8mm) please? VC61 9/7. Thank you @mothiduk.bsky.social #teammoth @bcyorkshire.bsky.social 240
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Please can you cast an expert eye on these micros @mothiduk.bsky.social Phtheochroa inopiana, Eudemis profundana, Epinotia solandriana, E. tenerana… 5/7 VC61 #teammoth Thank you! 120
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Bordered Beauty VC61 5/7 #teammoth @bcyorkshire.bsky.social 0180
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Please can you help with this pug @mothiduk.bsky.social VC61 5/7. Many thanks #teammoth 120
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 21/06/2025VC61 20/6: mystery??, Dioryctia sp prob not doable, Acleris logiana rather than kochiella?, and another mystery (not one of the Lypusidae??)… busy night! Any help hugely appreciated @mothiduk.bsky.social @doublekidney.bsky.social #teammoth 121
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Hi @mothiduk.bsky.social are these good for Epinotia signatana and Helcystogramma rufescens please? VC61 16/6. Thank you so much #teammoth 140
Paul/Paz Fletcher @illutana.bsky.social · 14/06/2025VC61 13/6: 69 spp on a perfect night. Ran out of pots! Exotelia dodecella and Argyresthia conjugella new to 10km square. Scarcities included Red-necked Footman, Pale Oak Beauty, Satin Beauty and Blotched Emerald @doublekidney.bsky.social @bcyorkshire.bsky.social #teammoth 0160
