Shandy Hall Moths
18 April 2011
18 April 2011-Shandy Hall moths on BBC Radio 4
Moths have not been plentiful over the last few nights – a bright, nearly full moon and low temperatures brought out just enough to satisfy the hunger of the first pipistrelle of the year – but moth enthusiasts were in plentiful supply. Martin Wainwright and Iain Chambers are putting together a radio programme with a […]
15 April 2011
29 April 2011 – National Gardens Scheme Evening Event
If you are interested in the mothy side of Shandy Hall then you are welcome to come to Coxwold as dusk falls on 29 April when the results of the previous night’s trap will be examined, photographed and recorded by Dave Chesmore of the University of York. Dave’s knowledge and experience is considerable and there […]
15 April 2011
Winged Skull
Moths have been part of the activities at Shandy Hall since a chance glimpse of the Allis Collection in the store at York Museum produced the idea of linking Laurence Sterne and Acherontia atropos – the Death’s-head Hawk-moth. This moth, which is not a native species, is the largest moth found in the UK and […]
13 April 2011
Moth trapping at Shandy Hall
A list of moth species, originally compiled by Dave Chesmore, is regularly updated and contains all the moth species we have identified in the gardens at Shandy Hall, Coxwold. Traps have been set using mercury vapour lights and have been positioned in three different locations over the years – the formal garden, the walled garden […]
Recent Moths
- Three More New Micromoths
- Three Majestic New Micromoths
- Invasion of the Beet-Army Worms
- Sarah Gillespie’s Mezzotint Moths
- A Visit From the Privet Hawk-Moth
- The Splendid Scarlet Tiger
- An Uncertainty of Species
- A New Micro-moth that Inhabits Where Others Do Not
- Brown Moths and ‘Binsey Poplars’
- SHANDY HALL MOTH LIST to August 2025 (alphabetical with links)
- Rise of the AI Naturalist
- Best Moths for a Haunted Abbey
