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The West Midlands Moths website is now updated to include records up to an including 2024.

West Midlands Moths covers: VC36 Herefordshire; VC37 Worcestershire; VC39 Staffordshire & VC40 Shropshire.

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November 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
White-point in #Shrewsbury last night was a new one for the garden and still has few VC40 records. Having a good year down south. So is Figure-of-Eight, including locally, so good to finally get it for the year (three) as well. #teammoth @bc-westmids.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
All the 8s... 18/8 to the MV today of which TEN were Figure of Eights, a record count of this declining moth #salopmoths #teammoth #vc40
October 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
With maybe only 4 or 5 Shropshire records, this Delicate was the clear highlight of this morning's haul. Lots of autumn colour otherwise 🍂 #teammoth #vc40 #loveautumn @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
"He says we're tired and disgusted/ So we paint red through the sky/ I say the truth is straight ahead/ So don't burn yourself instead/ Try to learn instead of burn"

#JimiHendrix
#MusicSky

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House Burning Down
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September 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I found this as a pavement weed in Shrewsbury last year new for VC40
September 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Flushed this candy-striped Vestal off the drive in the sunshine after the thundery downpour this afternoon @migrantmothuk.bsky.social #vc40 #teammoth
September 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Was starting to wonder if I'd get a Vestal in this excellent migrant year, then this autumn-toned beauty appeared alongside 2 Dark Sword-grass and a Silver Y #teammoth #vc40 @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Another Bordered Straw at the wet and windy MV this morning along with Oak Hook-tip, 4 Frosted Oranges 😋 and a couple of Feathered Gothics #teammoth #vc40 @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Another Scarce Bordered Straw and a stunning Dark Sword-grass in this morning's vc40 moth haul. Great year for @migrantmothuk.bsky.social #teammoth
August 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Always great to find a Red Underwing in the mothtrap, such charismatic creatures. Also got in on the ocellatella craze, and shook hands with a beautiful Antler Moth #teammoth #vc40
August 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The Scarce Bordered Straw was still present this morning with other @migrantmothuk.bsky.social of Silver Y, Turnip, Angle Shades, RDP and a few Diamondbacks. Not bad for cool northerlies #teammoth #vc40
August 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Yet another Small Mottled Willow to the MV last night along with a couple of Rush Veneers, 7 Pale Eggars, 5 Chinese Characters, 115+ Common Wainscots... #teammoth #vc40 @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Dirty Beaches Live at the Camden Brewery
for Camden Crawl 2014, London

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Dirty Beaches Live at the Camden Brewery for Camden Crawl 2014, London
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August 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Hi Simon, definitely Short-winged Conehead adults! Excellent discovery - only the 2nd VC40 record. I've been looking at the other one this afternoon, oddly enough. Fabulous!
August 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Here are the Scaly Crickets! 🥰 bsky.app/profile/vc40...
Back from a trip to Pembrokeshire with @rockwolf74.bsky.social where our main target was to find Scaly Crickets (= Atlantic Beach Cricket, Pseudomogoplistes vicentae) at the well-known but hard to find population at Marloes Sands. Success! Chuffed to find adults & nymphs. A lifer! Hard work though!
August 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
My botanical highlight this week was finding Jersey Cudweed (now Laphangium luteoalbum, which I had to look up) new to VC40 in a gutter in Sutton Farm, Shrewsbury while walking round to an evening meeting! Quick phone pics. I must pop back & crouch in the gutter with a better camera #wildflowerhour
August 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
White-point and another Small Mottled Willow were today's @migrantmothuk.bsky.social highlights along with yet more Ears (agg) and a selection of Straw-dot variations #teammoth #vc40
July 31, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Another mothtrap full of interest this morning, with a @migrantmothuk.bsky.social Small Mottled Willow, a nationally scarce beetle Oedemera femoralis, and some photogenic micros #teammoth #vc40
July 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
A few smart NFY in this morning's #mothtrap including an Ear agg. at the same time as two friends caught their first for a few years, maybe hinting at a bit of a dispersal? #teammoth #vc40
July 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Lots of interest in the mothtrap this morning: migrant Dark Sword-grass and Diamondbacks, a rare Yellow Mayfly a long way from home, identifiable pugs(!) and a couple of Dusky Sallows #teammoth #mothsmatter #vc40
July 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Another day, another Bordered Straw riding the heatwave 🌊 #migration #teammoth #vc40 @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
At last a migrant! Nice Bordered Straw on this morning's pre-work check of the mothtrap, and a lovely Dusky Sallow amongst others #teammoth #mothsmatter #vc40
June 29, 2025 at 6:53 AM