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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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West Midlands Moths
The Moths of the West Midlands.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
pilning.bsky.social
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
White-point, orangey brown noctuid with sharply defined white spot in wing. Used to be a rare migrant but now common in the S/SE and having a good year by all accounts. Figure-of-Eight. I usually do well for these so good to finally catch up - three last night
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
saloplarus.bsky.social
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
Close up of the eponymous 8 (or 80?!) on the wing of a Figure of Eight moth
October 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
ken-shabby.bsky.social
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House Burning Down
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September 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
saloplarus.bsky.social
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
Delicate Frosted Orange Pink-barred Sallow Sallow
September 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
shoebillmansion.bsky.social
"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
pilning.bsky.social
I found this as a pavement weed in Shrewsbury last year new for VC40
September 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
saloplarus.bsky.social
Flushed this candy-striped Vestal off the drive in the sunshine after the thundery downpour this afternoon @migrantmothuk.bsky.social #vc40 #teammoth
Lemon yellow Vestal with a vivid pink stripes in the Holly
September 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
saloplarus.bsky.social
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
A straw-coloured (locally bred?) Vestal on a rain-covered window Two gorgeous Dark Sword-grass moths on the windowsill. Love em 😍
September 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
saloplarus.bsky.social
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
Bordered Straw on a silver birch leaf Oak Hook-tip A handful of Frosted Orange moths Two Feathered Gothics in a jar
September 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
saloplarus.bsky.social
Another Scarce Bordered Straw and a stunning Dark Sword-grass in this morning's vc40 moth haul. Great year for @migrantmothuk.bsky.social #teammoth
Scarce Bordered Straw peering around an old dandelion head A beautiful full goth Dark Sword-grass on the wall
August 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
saloplarus.bsky.social
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
Red Underwing portrait Red Underwing Scrobipalpa ocellatella - Beet Moth Antler Moth
August 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
saloplarus.bsky.social
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
Scarce Bordered Straw portrait Silver Y Rusty Dot Pearl Diamondback
August 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
saloplarus.bsky.social
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
Pale Eggar Pale Eggar Small Mottled Willow Rush Veneer
August 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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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
vc40orthops.bsky.social
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
ttflowers.bsky.social
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House Burning Down
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August 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
vc40ladybirds.bsky.social
Here are the Scaly Crickets! 🥰 bsky.app/profile/vc40...
vc40orthops.bsky.social David W. Williams @vc40orthops.bsky.social · Aug 7
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!
Female Scaly Cricket. About 14mm long plus 5mm ovipositor. She is facing head-down on a large pebble in a shingle beach. Scaly Cricket male. Smaller than the female at about 8-10mm long, standing on the fine grit layer of the beach. Scaly Cricket nymph. This one is about 5mm long but we saw a wide range of sizes and ages, from about 2mm up to almost the size of the adult males.
August 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
pilning.bsky.social
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
Flower head of Jersey Cudweed Drone footage (ok, phone looking down on it) of the single plant - it was producing a lot of seed so will hopefully spread around
August 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
saloplarus.bsky.social
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
White-point Small Mottled Willow (right) with a Straw-dot and Brimstone Four Ear moth agg. Four Straw-dots showing significant pattern variation
July 31, 2025 at 9:31 AM
saloplarus.bsky.social
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
Small Mottled Willow Oedemera femoralis, a nationally scarce species of false blister beetle Black-tipped Ermine (Yponomeuta plumbella), one of three at the mothtrap A tiny Parornix sp.
July 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
saloplarus.bsky.social
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
One of the Ear Moth aggregation True Lover's Knot Poplar Grey Rosy Rustic
July 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
saloplarus.bsky.social
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
Dark Sword-grass, a beautiful migrant moth that we don't get many of Yellow Mayfly (Potomanthus luteus), a rare and very localised resident of the Rivers Wye, Usk and Teme, and doing well in none of them Lime-speck Pug, a favourite because it's an easy pug for once! Dusky Sallow
July 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
saloplarus.bsky.social
Another day, another Bordered Straw riding the heatwave 🌊 #migration #teammoth #vc40 @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
Bordered Straw moth perched on a cork
June 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
saloplarus.bsky.social
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
Bordered Straw Dusky Sallow
June 29, 2025 at 6:53 AM