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1. Moonlander Part 2

   Wed 03^rd Jul 2024 / in Traps

   The location for our trapping is in a controlled environment we’ve been using now for over 10 yea...

2. Moonlander Moth Trap with Goodden Gemlight Super – Moonlander Part 1

   Tue 25^th Jun 2024 / in Traps

   Following on from our previous post it seemed to make sense to purchase the Moonlander in additio...

3. Travel Moth Traps

   Mon 27^th May 2024 / in Traps

     Cray Trap Gazing dreamily out of a hotel room win...

4. Return to the Burren (2023)

   Tue 26^th Sep 2023 / in The Burren, Photography

   This trip, having now completed our mission of recording the Burren Green, was to be more of a ho...

5. End of Year Site Launch

   Sun 01^st Jan 2023 / in Website, Marek's Muse

   What better way to welcome in a new year and a new knee than to release...

6. Camouflage and Survival

   Sun 08^th May 2022 / in Field Trips, Know Your Moths

   I will have to admit from the start that this blog article is based purely on both...

7. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire

   Mon 03^rd Jan 2022 / in Marek's Muse

   Chestnuts roasting on an open fire was my intention, but for some reason the crop...

8. Exploding Bulbs

   Sun 01^st Aug 2021 / in Equipment

   When we first started recording moths in 2011, we experimented with...

9. Hand Me A Tissue

   Sun 07^th Mar 2021 / in Pictures, Shadows

   Things are always a bit quiet on the ‘mothing’ front at this time of the ...

10. In Lockdown with mothing to do – Pt2 – Clearwings

    Sun 06^th Dec 2020 / in Marek's Muse

    I thought that for Part 2 I would focus more on the...

11. In Lockdown with mothing to do – Pt1 – Pheromones

    Sun 08^th Nov 2020 / in Marek's Muse

    At the beginning of the year our hopes were high for recording several...

12. Another Look at Shadows

    Sun 05^th Jan 2020 / in Shadows

    I have now almost completed the backlog of images from last year...

13. The Seedy Side of Mothing

    Sun 24^th Nov 2019 / in Northumberland

    Normally our mothing trips around the UK and Europe are planned affairs...

14. Upside down in the Moth House

    Sun 08^th Sep 2019 / in Know Your Moths

    Why not read about how I have been trying to take images in my my moth house upside down, with th...

15. The Burren Fourth Visit

    Sun 18^th Aug 2019 / in The Burren

    Why not read up about our fourth visit to the Burren on our adventures to find new speicies of mo...

16. Catching Up

    Sun 16^th Jun 2019 / in Field Trips

    Following our success at Seaford Haven we turned our attention to another moth which had managed...

17. Stalking the Barred Tooth-striped

    Sun 14^th Apr 2019 / in Field Trips

    Our planned return to Seaford Head, as mentioned in a previous post, neared as the flight season...

18. Gender Differences

    Sun 24^th Feb 2019 / in Know Your Moths

    An aerial look at the gender differences between moths....

19. Futures

    Sun 23^rd Dec 2018 / in Marek's Muse

    Twelve months have now passed now since I started...