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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jersey Cudweed and Black Nightshade flowering on Dublin quays last week for #wildflowerhour and #urbanbotany

Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Flowers seen in my meadow yesterday for #wildflowerhour - Charlock, Treacle Mustard, Dandelion, Autumn Hawkbit and Red Clover

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Flowers all seen in a local nature area at the weekend for #wildflowerhour: Fairy Flax, white Herb Robert, Eyebright, Brookweed, Rosebay Willowherb and Common Centaury.

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annterrys-7.bsky.social @annterrys-7.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Managed to see our first Convolvulus HM for a while tonight in Hunstanton. #teammoth #norfolkmoths

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Very happy to find a little migrant Vestal moth in my field last night, they don’t often make their way to the Irish midlands, and best of all it was my first pink one💓#teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A lone Parasol mushroom at Cullohill Mountains yesterday. No Waxcaps seen yet! #MushroomMonday #fungifriends

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Black Medick, Prickly Sow-thistle and Silverweed today in Cullohill Mountains for #wildflowerhour

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Early Dog-violet, Ling and Bell Heather in Cullohill Mountains today for #wildflowerhour

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Turnip moth, last weekend, a rare visitor here in Laois and found where I normally run my moth trap but before I had set it up! #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sallow and Pink-barred Sallow moths from last night for #SundayYellow and #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Ivy seems to be flowering early this year, I’ve checked it by torchlight quite a few times but very few moths seen. A Pale Pinion was the best so far: #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A Herald moth was my favourite moth last night in Laois. #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Frosted Orange moth from the weekend trap in Laois, my 2nd this year but still was the highlight amongst just 17 spp. #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Marsh Yellow-cress on the banks of the River Erkina in Durrow for #wildflowerhour

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A new place to find Black Nightshade in Laois - by the road into Castle Durrow. #wildflowerhour

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I was trying to work out why the hoverfly was upside down and then spotted the camouflaged crab spider hiding in the Bindweed flower:

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Touch of Autumn in the trap this morning, in Laois, with 3 Sallows, 2 Centre-barred Sallow and a Frosted Orange. #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Really pleased to get Dingy Shell on my Laois garden moth list, I’ve only seen this species once before - at Abbeyleix Bog. #teammothh

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Clouded Yellow favoured the yellow Cat’s Ears but also tried the Ragwort:

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Common Ragwort for #wildflowerhour #commonnames, in Irish: Buachalán buí, which translates to "little yellow boy" or "yellow herd-boy". This plant was an a steep scree bank, on its own!

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Cat’s Ear and Devil’s-bit Scabious in Cullohill Mountains for #wildflowerhour #commonnames

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Treacle Mustard suddenly appeared in my meadow this week. #wildflowerhour

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Here is my first ever Clouded Yellow butterfly, last week in my meadow in Laois. I’ve dreamed of seeing this migrant species for years and it didn’t disappoint! It seemed to have a preference for Cat’s Ears. #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Surprised to catch a late for season but fresh White Ermine moth on Thursday night (06/08). #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

For #FungiFriday from Dunmore Woods, Durrow: tentative ID of Rhodonia placenta, on a Spruce (?) log. Have a close look at the texture and colour -it’s impressive! #fungifriends

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Pseudoinonotus dryadeus - Oak Bracket on Oak in Dunmore Woods today. It typically grows near the base of an Oak tree, as did this one, and just look at the gutattion! #MushroomMonday #fungifriends

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I trapped near the river on Saturday night - this Willow Beauty was near the trap in the morning, posing on the vegetation! #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Iron Prominent from last night’s trap in Laois #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Argyresthia goedartella from 21/7 - this little moth as a caterpillar mines Birch and Alder catkins. #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Oak Eggar to the LED trap overnight in Laois - an impressive, big female but wings a little tatty. #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Double-lobed, NFY, last night - larval feedplants = Reed Canary-grass (Phalaris arundinacea) and Reed sweet-grass (Glycera maxima). #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Dingy Shears was a new species for me, and probably for Laois, at the weekend, but hoping for a fresher one sometime. #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Decided to look for The Miller moth caterpillars on the garden Birch tree and found one quite quickly - a favourite of mine and first this year.🐛#teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Grass Emerald, trapped in my meadow overnight, was my favourite moth seen this morning #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Dark Giant Horsefly (Tabanus sudeticus) seen near my front door in Laois last night, on her back kicking initially, and up correct later on (I was too scared to turn her over!). This is the heaviest fly in Europe.

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Happy to see this beautiful Comma butterfly in the garden this morning, in Laois

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Yellow moth collection: Swallow-tailed Moth, female Ghost Moth and little micro moth, Pseudargyrotoza conwagana (Ash & Privet feedplants), Laois 25/6/26 #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A crowd of Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet moths on Marsh Thistle, at Abbeyleix for #wildwebswednesday #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Pretty in pink! Two of the three Elephant Hawkmoths that came to my trap in Laois at the weekend. #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Barred Yellow from the weekend trap in Laois- larval feedplant is Dog-rose. #teammoth

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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Melancholy Thistle / Cirsium heterophyllum in Ashes Pasture hay meadow, Yorkshire, last week - a new species for me! #wildflowerhour

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