Mavis Bickle
@mavisbickle.bsky.social
Gloucestershire Artist, illustrator of small wildlife with a ‘weakness for night butterflies’ and wildlife gardening enthusiast. (VC33)
Other special interests: Forteana, Archaeology and er..Sheds
Other special interests: Forteana, Archaeology and er..Sheds
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Mavis Bickle
@mavisbickle.bsky.social
· May 22
#MothsMatter 🥰
Give them a helping hand and plant native 🌿
Give them a helping hand and plant native 🌿
The exhibition all finished. There’s a bit of sadness when selling paintings, as well as the pleasure, having lived with these moffs for a while. They looked good in their vintage frames though. All in all a successful exhibition and lots of people learned more about moths!
#teammoth #sciArt
#teammoth #sciArt
November 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The greeting cards are doing well @TreeStories exhibition- Christmas cards especially, no idea why😅
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The greeting cards are doing well @TreeStories exhibition- Christmas cards especially, no idea why😅
3 sold already - people are liking the moffs #ThreeStoreys #ArtExhibition
#TeamMoth #Invertebrates #Illustration
#TeamMoth #Invertebrates #Illustration
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
3 sold already - people are liking the moffs #ThreeStoreys #ArtExhibition
#TeamMoth #Invertebrates #Illustration
#TeamMoth #Invertebrates #Illustration
Our #ArtExhibition opens today for a week at The Setting Gallery at Three Storeys in #Nailsworth 🔴 🔴
I’ll post pics of some of the exhibits later & if anyone is interested in buying prints of anything, please DM me for details or even better, come along and visit! #WildlifeArt #TeamMoth #TreeStories
I’ll post pics of some of the exhibits later & if anyone is interested in buying prints of anything, please DM me for details or even better, come along and visit! #WildlifeArt #TeamMoth #TreeStories
November 18, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Our #ArtExhibition opens today for a week at The Setting Gallery at Three Storeys in #Nailsworth 🔴 🔴
I’ll post pics of some of the exhibits later & if anyone is interested in buying prints of anything, please DM me for details or even better, come along and visit! #WildlifeArt #TeamMoth #TreeStories
I’ll post pics of some of the exhibits later & if anyone is interested in buying prints of anything, please DM me for details or even better, come along and visit! #WildlifeArt #TeamMoth #TreeStories
Likely my last trap 🤔 was surprisingly productive last night compared to recent ones, with 18:9 including 2NFGs - Gem and 2 Mottled Umbers (can’t believe I’ve never seen this one before) and NFYs Diamondback and 3 December Moths, (my total in 2024)
Also FThorn, Turnip, Blair’s SK, R-G Carpet x3
Also FThorn, Turnip, Blair’s SK, R-G Carpet x3
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Likely my last trap 🤔 was surprisingly productive last night compared to recent ones, with 18:9 including 2NFGs - Gem and 2 Mottled Umbers (can’t believe I’ve never seen this one before) and NFYs Diamondback and 3 December Moths, (my total in 2024)
Also FThorn, Turnip, Blair’s SK, R-G Carpet x3
Also FThorn, Turnip, Blair’s SK, R-G Carpet x3
A single Palpita vitrealis, Silver Y, Turnips and White-points, Yellow-line Quaker, Blair’s Shoulder-knot, R-G Carpet and some LBAMs made 12:9 for me to the light last night VC33 Stroud
Oh, and another late Uncertain for @ruthnewby.bsky.social
#teammoth
Oh, and another late Uncertain for @ruthnewby.bsky.social
#teammoth
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
A single Palpita vitrealis, Silver Y, Turnips and White-points, Yellow-line Quaker, Blair’s Shoulder-knot, R-G Carpet and some LBAMs made 12:9 for me to the light last night VC33 Stroud
Oh, and another late Uncertain for @ruthnewby.bsky.social
#teammoth
Oh, and another late Uncertain for @ruthnewby.bsky.social
#teammoth
Phew! It’s okay everyone, he’s turned up. A bit late.
So all is well with the world. I hope he appreciates the amount of electricity I used in my perseverance to catch him though 😅
#FeathersMcThorn #teammoth
So all is well with the world. I hope he appreciates the amount of electricity I used in my perseverance to catch him though 😅
#FeathersMcThorn #teammoth
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Phew! It’s okay everyone, he’s turned up. A bit late.
So all is well with the world. I hope he appreciates the amount of electricity I used in my perseverance to catch him though 😅
#FeathersMcThorn #teammoth
So all is well with the world. I hope he appreciates the amount of electricity I used in my perseverance to catch him though 😅
#FeathersMcThorn #teammoth
November 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
He says no, I din’t like the look of @cliveaderbys.bsky.social ‘s gaff so I’m back…😅 😑
Just a single tatty Beaded Chestnut to the light last night. + a November moth agg that didn’t stick around
#teammoth
Just a single tatty Beaded Chestnut to the light last night. + a November moth agg that didn’t stick around
#teammoth
November 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
He says no, I din’t like the look of @cliveaderbys.bsky.social ‘s gaff so I’m back…😅 😑
Just a single tatty Beaded Chestnut to the light last night. + a November moth agg that didn’t stick around
#teammoth
Just a single tatty Beaded Chestnut to the light last night. + a November moth agg that didn’t stick around
#teammoth
What is it?
Pic 1-
a) Chuckitoverthehedge Moth
b) Clancy’s Rustic (not at all likely)
c) Neglected Rustic (almost impossible)
d) Don’t be bloody daft, it’s a washed out PMW
Pic 2-
The mystery with a PMW
I recorded this as PMW on 10/10 but I couldn’t let it lie 😅
Dear #teammoth
Can you help?
Pic 1-
a) Chuckitoverthehedge Moth
b) Clancy’s Rustic (not at all likely)
c) Neglected Rustic (almost impossible)
d) Don’t be bloody daft, it’s a washed out PMW
Pic 2-
The mystery with a PMW
I recorded this as PMW on 10/10 but I couldn’t let it lie 😅
Dear #teammoth
Can you help?
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
What is it?
Pic 1-
a) Chuckitoverthehedge Moth
b) Clancy’s Rustic (not at all likely)
c) Neglected Rustic (almost impossible)
d) Don’t be bloody daft, it’s a washed out PMW
Pic 2-
The mystery with a PMW
I recorded this as PMW on 10/10 but I couldn’t let it lie 😅
Dear #teammoth
Can you help?
Pic 1-
a) Chuckitoverthehedge Moth
b) Clancy’s Rustic (not at all likely)
c) Neglected Rustic (almost impossible)
d) Don’t be bloody daft, it’s a washed out PMW
Pic 2-
The mystery with a PMW
I recorded this as PMW on 10/10 but I couldn’t let it lie 😅
Dear #teammoth
Can you help?
Boo! A ghoulish Merv for #mothfacefriday #happyhalloween 💀
October 31, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Boo! A ghoulish Merv for #mothfacefriday #happyhalloween 💀
28/10/25 15:7
A funny old night, soggy trap full of Red-green Carpet, Turnip and wasps. There was an Orange Sallow though, new for the year #teammoth
A funny old night, soggy trap full of Red-green Carpet, Turnip and wasps. There was an Orange Sallow though, new for the year #teammoth
October 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
28/10/25 15:7
A funny old night, soggy trap full of Red-green Carpet, Turnip and wasps. There was an Orange Sallow though, new for the year #teammoth
A funny old night, soggy trap full of Red-green Carpet, Turnip and wasps. There was an Orange Sallow though, new for the year #teammoth
Just 3:3 last night, Turnip poss migrant, another Epirrata agg and
Yellow-line Quaker, only my 2nd in the garden and NFY
Prompting a tongue twister for today
Red-line Yellow-line
#teammoth
Yellow-line Quaker, only my 2nd in the garden and NFY
Prompting a tongue twister for today
Red-line Yellow-line
#teammoth
October 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Just 3:3 last night, Turnip poss migrant, another Epirrata agg and
Yellow-line Quaker, only my 2nd in the garden and NFY
Prompting a tongue twister for today
Red-line Yellow-line
#teammoth
Yellow-line Quaker, only my 2nd in the garden and NFY
Prompting a tongue twister for today
Red-line Yellow-line
#teammoth
A Triphosa dubitata is not to be sneezed at but it was in a tricky spot behind the umbrella strut and I fumbled the pottage 🤧
It would have been a NFG record, although I did manage to capture another NFG, albeit common, Chestnut
16/10/25 23:13 Also Black Rusticsx2, Blair’sx2, MdJ, Turnipx4 #teammoth
It would have been a NFG record, although I did manage to capture another NFG, albeit common, Chestnut
16/10/25 23:13 Also Black Rusticsx2, Blair’sx2, MdJ, Turnipx4 #teammoth
October 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
A Triphosa dubitata is not to be sneezed at but it was in a tricky spot behind the umbrella strut and I fumbled the pottage 🤧
It would have been a NFG record, although I did manage to capture another NFG, albeit common, Chestnut
16/10/25 23:13 Also Black Rusticsx2, Blair’sx2, MdJ, Turnipx4 #teammoth
It would have been a NFG record, although I did manage to capture another NFG, albeit common, Chestnut
16/10/25 23:13 Also Black Rusticsx2, Blair’sx2, MdJ, Turnipx4 #teammoth
Like buses, 6 of the 12 species to light last night came in threes. 29 moths overall, White-point, R-G carpet, Beaded Chestnut, Vine’s Rustic, CMC, PMW LYU and singles of SSD, Blair’s Shoulder-knot and Green-brindled Crescent (NFY) #teammoth
Sorry about the acronyms 🤭
Sorry about the acronyms 🤭
October 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Like buses, 6 of the 12 species to light last night came in threes. 29 moths overall, White-point, R-G carpet, Beaded Chestnut, Vine’s Rustic, CMC, PMW LYU and singles of SSD, Blair’s Shoulder-knot and Green-brindled Crescent (NFY) #teammoth
Sorry about the acronyms 🤭
Sorry about the acronyms 🤭
Thank goodness for the Merv and the Red-line Quaker and the Barred Sallow for turning up last night because I was feeling very left out ☺️
#teammoth
#teammoth
October 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Thank goodness for the Merv and the Red-line Quaker and the Barred Sallow for turning up last night because I was feeling very left out ☺️
#teammoth
#teammoth
10/10/25 29:15, perfect conditions but I’m still struggling to find anything particularly interesting 🫤
Red-green Carpet & Eudonia angustea NFYs #teammoth
Red-green Carpet & Eudonia angustea NFYs #teammoth
October 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
10/10/25 29:15, perfect conditions but I’m still struggling to find anything particularly interesting 🫤
Red-green Carpet & Eudonia angustea NFYs #teammoth
Red-green Carpet & Eudonia angustea NFYs #teammoth
A Swallowtail looking like freshly washed linen came in early this morning and the Carcina quercana was on the sheet all night. Still waiting for something green … #teammoth
October 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
A Swallowtail looking like freshly washed linen came in early this morning and the Carcina quercana was on the sheet all night. Still waiting for something green … #teammoth
October 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM