Atropos Journal

04/06/2024

Submit your migrant news to our Flight Arrivals (https://www.atropos.info/flight-arrivals/) with an image for your chance to win a £20 voucher to spend at Atropos Books,

The latest winner of the Photo of the Month is Ian Roberts with his photo of a Willowherb Hawkmoth trapped at Folkestone on the night of 24th May. Ian will receive a £20 voucher to use on purchases from Atropos Books. Congratulations Ian.

For your chance to win the Photo of the Month competition, submit your migrant news to Flight Arrivals (https://www.atropos.info/flight-arrivals/) with an image of the moth / butterfly / dragonfly.

25/12/2023

We would like to wish all our readers a merry Christmas and a happy new year with plenty of surprises in the year ahead. For those persisting with moth-traps there are still a few migrant and resident moths about in the mild weather and spring is on the distant horizon. Thanks for your support in 2023.

03/11/2023

The next issue of Atropos taking shape in London today. It's been a while but we are back this month with a colourful issue and some great feature articles on butterflies and moths. Maybe you can work out the content from the images!

12/10/2023

Aside from observing the editor's car needs some work on it and a good wash, can you spot anything else? Well done to the eagle eyed Scott Barron for noticing this! I wonder if it would have held on!

10/10/2023

In the moth-trap this morning. Thought it was a Humming-bird Hawk-moth to begin with then realised it was a Passenger 😅

27/09/2023

Old World Webworm Hellula undalis and Yellow-underwing Pearl Uresiphita gilvata. Migrant pyralid moths caught on the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, this week, heralding the publication of the new Field Guide to the Pyralid and Crambid Moths of Britain and Ireland from Atropos Publishing! Learn more about these species by purchasing your copy online today. The book is in transit from Italy currently and due in the UK very soon.

https://www.atroposbooks.co.uk/pyralid-and-crambid-moths-of-britain-and-ireland

15/09/2023

A historic day in Italy. After too many years of hard work and input from countless people within the subject the book really is printing today. The first comprehensive field guide to the pyralid moths of the British Isles since 1986. We will be mailing out copies next month. Order yours online today

https://www.atroposbooks.co.uk/pyralid-and-crambid-moths-of-britain-and-ireland

11/09/2023

A Guide to the Pyralid and Crambid Moths of Great Britain and Ireland: We are delighted to announce that this long-awaited book will be published in October. We would like to thank customers who purchased the book in advance and have been patiently waiting for the arrival of this exciting new publication. Atropos will be despatching copies in October.

It represents the first comprehensive update of the pyralid and crambid moth fauna of the British Isles since Barry Goater’s seminal British Pyralid Moths in 1986. The book includes live photographs, set specimens, and information on distribution, identification and life cycle, including critical species figures with highlighted identification pointers. Photographs of larvae, feeding signs, and habitats are also featured for some species. Vernacular names are also included. We hope that the book will encourage further study of these moths and add to current knowledge.

Order Today https://www.atroposbooks.co.uk/pyralid-and-crambid-moths-of-britain-and-ireland

22/08/2023

August is proving to be a hawk-moth festival at Atropos HQ, Lizard, Cornwall. Also in the traps last night a Convolvulus Hawk and a Humming-bird Hawk. If you are an Atropos subscriber on holiday in the area and you would like to come along to a trap opening one morning feel free to get in touch.

11/08/2023

Atropos at Atropos HQ this morning. The fourth one ever recorded here and the first August record. Always a thrill!

09/08/2023

The first Convolvulus Hawk-moth of the year here on the Lizard peninsula. Autumn not far away...

16/07/2023

Never underestimate the value of thistles! One of an estimated 1400 Red Admirals present at a solar farm in Cambridgeshire yesterday.

15/07/2023

It's great to be back at the second Global Birdfair and supporting international conservation projects. Rather a wet day yesterday but looking better today so come and see us in Swallow marquee, where you can peruse the new Noctuidae Europaea Essential tome and take it away with £10 off the normal price.

12/05/2023

IN STOCK NOW – We’ve never seen anything like this before! It’s enormous and packed full of information for anyone interested in European moths or potential visitors to the British Isles. This book covers all 1623 known species of European Noctuid moths and contains photographs of over 1500 of them at rest and more than 1000 of their larvae, with 92 colour plates of set specimens. Text in English. Add to your library today! Click here for further details and to order your copy https://www.atroposbooks.co.uk/noctuidae-europaeae-essential

24/04/2023

Atropos readers will have read Katty Baird's fascinating articles in Atropos about hibernating moths underground. Now she has written a book! Click here for further information https://www.atroposbooks.co.uk/meetings-with-moths

01/01/2023

Your 2023 garden moth list starts here! The mild weather of recent days has produced records of White-speck, Pearly Underwing and Small Mottled Willow. A Happy new year to you all. Read all about it with Atropos in 2023!

14/11/2022

The unseasonal weather continues to bring surprises. The first November site records of Convolvulus Hawk-moth and Humming-bird Hawk-moth at Atropos HQ on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, last night.

05/11/2022

Do you know your Fused Burnished Brass from your Burnished Brass? Issue 71 of Atropos is now published and has been posted to our subscribers. Click here to subscribe or renew your subscription https://www.atroposbooks.co.uk/atropos-subscription or purchase a standalone copy for £8.50 by clicking here https://www.atroposbooks.co.uk/atropos-issue-71a

30/10/2022

A late Painted Lady in the trap at Atropos HQ this morning as the mild weather continues and insect migration is in full flow.

22/10/2022

A reminder to remain vigilant for other insects at moth-traps and look outside as well as inside the trap. Chroantha ornatula. A new shieldbug for the British Isles caught at Atropos HQ this week.

20/10/2022

Always a pleasure to see one of these beauties. This Crimson Speckled caught on the Lizard was one of several seen in Devon and Cornwall today. The migration continues.

19/10/2022

A substantial arrival of migrants in the south-west last night and a massive increase in numbers of Rush Veneer. Amongst them this Ni Moth on the Lizard. Further potential for migration in the coming nights. For all the latest news and to share your sightings visit https://www.atropos.info/flight-arrivals-recordings/

01/10/2022

21/09/2022

We are looking forward to a return to the AES Exhibition at Kempton Park Racecourse on Saturday 1st October. We will have all the latest titles, special offers, as well as books and journals from the late Terry Box's extensive entomological library for sale. Details of Terry's books can be found at https://www.atroposbooks.co.uk/terrys-books

We look forward to seeing you there!

17/09/2022

The Photo of the Month chosen from those submitted to the Atropos Flight Arrivals page (https://www.atropos.info/flight-arrivals/) in August, is Ian Barton's image of a Hummingbird Hawkmoth caterpillar, one of ten he found on bedstraw in late August in Streatham, Cambridgeshire Ian receives a £20 credit against purchases over £34 from Atropos Books.
Submit a photo with your migrant butterfly, moth or dragonfly news to Flight Arrivals, and you could be receiving a £20 voucher.

14/08/2022

The Photo of the Month chosen from those submitted to the https://www.atropos.info/flight-arrivals/ in July, is Hazel Beaney's capture of a migrant Swallowtail butterfly as it alighted briefly in Rovendon, Kent on 21st July. Hazel receives a £20 credit against purchases over £34 from Atropos Books.
Submit a photo with your migrant butterfly, moth or dragonfly news to Flight Arrivals, and you could be receiving a £20 voucher.

24/07/2022

June's Photo of the Month was this Alchymist trapped at Purdis Farm in Suffolk by Neil Sherman on 3 June.

Each month between April and November, Atropos awards a £20 prize for the best photograph posted on the Flight Arrivals news page. This prize can be used against purchases over £34 from Atropos Books (but cannot be used in conjunction with other offers). For a chance to win include a photo of your news when submitting it to Flight Arrivals (https://www.atropos.info/flight-arrivals/)

15/07/2022

David Chandler is currently signing copies of his dragonfly book on the Atropos stand at the Global Bird Fair, Oakham. Also available to buy on the Atropos Book website for £8.50 plus postage. The book focuses on 24 easily encountered species of dragonfly and damselfly and discusses their identification and ecology. For those of you who can't make the event David has kindly signed all our current stock and copies ordered on the website will contain a signature until stocks run out.
https://www.atroposbooks.co.uk/a-beginner-s-guide-to-the-dragonflies-of-britain-and-ireland

15/07/2022

We are delighted to be back in Oakham for the first Global Bird Fair. Come and see us in Swallow marquee stand 44/45. Here until Sunday. www.globalbirdfair.org

28/06/2022

With just over two weeks to the first Global Birdfair at Oakham we are excited to be returning to exhibiting and meeting our subscribers and customers. Come and say hello in Swallow Marquee S44/45.