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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 15h

31:14 on another rainy night. I don’t usually trap in wet weather but I used an extra Perspex cover. The trap was dry this morning but there weren’t a lot in it! A nicely coloured Turnip and Black Rustics, Barred Sallows and Large Ranunculusses again #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 15h

Another one…I really want to know where, exactly they’re coming from 🤔 Smaller this time, FW 14mm #HauntedbySpinyNorman #teammoth

Watsonalla (uncinula) in an autumnal setting

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This cheeky chappy appeared on a very rainy one last night but although common, has only appeared twice in my garden, the last time July 19th ‘25. (Usual FS is July/August) Anyway. He flew off and landed on a snail and went for a white-knuckle ride 😆 NFY male Yellow-tail 💛🤍 #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some of the results of the last two traps in my garden. #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This tiny moth and its strange little dance makes me smile 😊 #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is getting too silly now. The black markings on the outer hook are more diffuse this time but the flashes are white again. Much darker this time overall. Spiny Hook-tip no.3 …because I reckon they’re all coming from the one local patch of oak..maybe 🤓 #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The beautiful Brimstone looking like it had just emerged, was moon bathing like this all night #teammoth #mothsmatter

Yellow Brimstone Moth on a sheet with wings spread

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cosmopterix pulchrimella showing nicely today on my walk #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A good night for my mothy garden with 4 nfys and 1 nfg! 81:34 Stroud Barred Sallow nfy Orange Sallow nfy Deep-brown Dart NFG! (top) 🎉 Black Rustic nfy Rosy Rustic nfy Another Large Ranunculus and the nicest Riband Wave ever I saw… #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Watsonalla Puzzle time! Spiny and Spiny Spiny and Oak Oak and Oak? …2 Hook-tips to light last night #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trap results from last night were a bit carp - 33:15 But these were nice- a fresh SMW and a Hypsopygia costalis #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A few more from last night’s woodland catch #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It must be the third week of September! 2 Large Ranunculusses (?) arrived last night but not much else on a chilly one #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Knitting and Handbags! Who gets lunch…? 🤔 Answers on a postcard #CarWildlife #Wasps #FalseWidow

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I often find Swallowtailed Moths and Light Emeralds on the back of the vine leaves but a very poor trap night with the temp down to 9° … 28:15 Stroud #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Somebody put me out of my misery and tell me this one on the left is a Square-spot Rustic.. like the one on the right is definitely a Sq-spot Rustic Aargh! #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Would anyone care to have a stab at this? ObsID is suggesting 99% Prays ruficeps and that would be NFG.. little blighter scarpered as I was trying to pot it unfortunately #teammoth @mothiduk.bsky.social

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Nothing new but these guys again (and a Mottled Rustic who decided to leave stage right. 120:30 on a drizzly night #teammoth

Feathered Gothic top left - clockwise, Centre-barred Sallow, L-album Wainscot, Straw-barred Pearl and Small Ranunculus

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A Feathered Gothic, nfy, and the first one seen in the garden since ‘23 so a welcome return and another one crossed off the autumn moths bingo card #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

115:25 VC33 Stroud Another soggy end to the night with a Beet moth that looked like it had gone on holiday by mistake… 😉 (just a few records for this square) but others hiding amongst the LYUs were Lime-speck Pug, a pair of L-albums and a gorgeous Frosted chocolate Orange #teammoth

I could almost have eaten it 😁
Frosted Orange

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A soggy old trap full of LYUs and Vine’s Rustic made up the majority (79) out of 126:24 but surprisingly, given the weather, the interesting ones were on the outside.. Pine Carpet, very washed out but just about recognisable, was NFG and other notables were a pair of Evergestis limbata #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There was a female Conocephalus fuscus in my polytunnel today… it’s a first! For me anyway #inverts #allotmentlife

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just a wee Small Phoenix, the only one that caught my eye this morning.. and I’m posting this picture dammit because I stood for at least five whole minutes with a pot over it waiting for it to spread 😅 #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A favourite , Burnished Brass and a nfy Delicate from last night, about 100 of just 24 species #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Just four records in the county makes this a scarce moth here, and although it’s visited once before, this time I managed to get a picture! Yay Evergestis limbata, Dark-bordered Pearl #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

About to pick some mint leaves for my raita when I was stopped in my tracks by three or so mint moth larvae (I assume) havin it large on my supermarket mint plant. So that’s plain yogurt for now then. They’ve had a good year those fellas #teammoth

I’m a very hungry caterpillar with nice breath

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

On today’s Butterfly transect there were more moths than butterflies, for the first time. Mostly Vestals and Grass moths though! #SaveButterflies #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Stroud VC33, 26/8/26 144:41 I’m liking the numerical symmetricals 😁 Frosted Orange, Short-cloaked and Clay Triple-lines new for the year and a couple of micro surprises, Ancylosis oblitella (?) and Ethmia quadrilella, NFG #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Some autumnals that haven’t made it to my garden yet..! Cosy Rustics Centre-barred Sallows Six-striped Rustics Heavens Valley Moth Survey VC33 #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Some Pyralids and Crambids this morning! Hypsopygia costalis nfy, Pyrausta despicata nfm Heavens Valley Moth Survey VC33 90:37 #teammoth

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Aerial view of green woodland beside scorched land with message urging UK government to rewild after extreme weather.

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Scarce Bordered Straw has big green eyes #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A lovely Small Emerald came to the actinic last night in my Stroud garden 129:28 #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It only took a week with the lure out every night… 🙄 but in a much better condition than the first one I had, last year. Ni Moth, Trichoplusia ni #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Ummm, so a micro I ain’t never seen before in the garden was this.. Delplanqueia dilutella Possibly 🤔 But just for aesthetic reasons Here is Plutella porrectella too 😁 #teammoth

Western Thyme Knot-horn according to ObsID but may not be accepted without a chop job

Aaah, innit lovely.
Streaked Diamond-back

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A couple of new macros for the year. Haven’t seen Angle Shades since spring ‘25 so that was good to get. Overall 185:41, from a trap stuffed with LYU and LBBYUs in a sudden explosion #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

When I saw this on the trap I said to myself ‘You’re gonna need a bigger pot’ Lol #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A pair of Small Ranunculus visited last night, 2nd generation I guess. #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Ooh, something new… 99:25 16/8/26 VC33 Anania perlucidalis (Marsh Pearl) nfg Furcula furcula (Sallow Kitten) nfy Agrotis ipsilon (Dark Sword-grass) nfy #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Some nice colours from the trap today but nothing terribly exciting 147:49 13/8/26 #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It was all about the micros this morning. How does this look for Caloptilia honoratella? It’s NFG as was Argyresthia geodartella. European Corn-borer was nfy, and this lovely grey version of Acleris literana has emerged recently by the look of it… #teammoth #migrantmothsuk

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A lovely Galium Carpet which visited the LED/sheet while I was sitting in the garden last night for an hour after sunset. About 10 moths, one of which was Evergestis limbata, but unfortunately I wasn’t speedy enough with a pot so no pic of that one. #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Poplar HM was just the 2nd for the garden this year and it was in one piece for a change #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A Vestal in the arid field this morning. I rarely see them in the garden trap, never seen before in the wild but this year is different innit #teammoth

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A few migrants (White-point, SMW, Rush Veneer) The L-album Wainscot was nfy… Plenty of Vine’s Rustic and Lesser Broad Bordered YU but numbers and species count way down. #teammoth

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