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 🌿
Crap pot shot of Acleris cristana, new for the garden record but a very naughty moth who had me up a ladder in the kitchen this morning… also a Red-Green Carpet for a grand total of 2:2 overnight… VC33 Stroud #teammoth
February 12, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Crap pot shot of Acleris cristana, new for the garden record but a very naughty moth who had me up a ladder in the kitchen this morning… also a Red-Green Carpet for a grand total of 2:2 overnight… VC33 Stroud #teammoth
❤️🩹 Do feel free to look away, it’s not my usual kind of post, but I felt as if I needed to mark the day somehow. I got into moth-ing as a welcome distraction after having lost my partner to Multiple System Atrophy 4 years ago today…
RiP Stevie M - Miss you forever x
Portrait by @happytoast.co.uk 🙏
RiP Stevie M - Miss you forever x
Portrait by @happytoast.co.uk 🙏
February 11, 2026 at 1:17 PM
❤️🩹 Do feel free to look away, it’s not my usual kind of post, but I felt as if I needed to mark the day somehow. I got into moth-ing as a welcome distraction after having lost my partner to Multiple System Atrophy 4 years ago today…
RiP Stevie M - Miss you forever x
Portrait by @happytoast.co.uk 🙏
RiP Stevie M - Miss you forever x
Portrait by @happytoast.co.uk 🙏
My January moth challenge stats: 1/1!
Worse than last year… the weather has been just awful here so my challenge has morphed into this WiP- something I’m very unlikely to see irl, the Silver-striped Hawk Moth! #teammoth #SciArt #HawkMoths
Worse than last year… the weather has been just awful here so my challenge has morphed into this WiP- something I’m very unlikely to see irl, the Silver-striped Hawk Moth! #teammoth #SciArt #HawkMoths
February 5, 2026 at 11:49 AM
My January moth challenge stats: 1/1!
Worse than last year… the weather has been just awful here so my challenge has morphed into this WiP- something I’m very unlikely to see irl, the Silver-striped Hawk Moth! #teammoth #SciArt #HawkMoths
Worse than last year… the weather has been just awful here so my challenge has morphed into this WiP- something I’m very unlikely to see irl, the Silver-striped Hawk Moth! #teammoth #SciArt #HawkMoths
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence:
“ Ever since the invention of the repeating rifle in the mid nineteenth century, the conservation of teeth was a low priority for the army, as infantrymen were no longer required to bite open gunpowder cartridges as part of the…
“ Ever since the invention of the repeating rifle in the mid nineteenth century, the conservation of teeth was a low priority for the army, as infantrymen were no longer required to bite open gunpowder cartridges as part of the…
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence:
" For him it didn't really matter about getting to a particular place, he just wanted to experience travelling itself"
" For him it didn't really matter about getting to a particular place, he just wanted to experience travelling itself"
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence:
"It resembled a giant walnut whip with a little curl at it's summit."
"It resembled a giant walnut whip with a little curl at it's summit."
January 22, 2026 at 7:36 AM
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence:
“ Ever since the invention of the repeating rifle in the mid nineteenth century, the conservation of teeth was a low priority for the army, as infantrymen were no longer required to bite open gunpowder cartridges as part of the…
“ Ever since the invention of the repeating rifle in the mid nineteenth century, the conservation of teeth was a low priority for the army, as infantrymen were no longer required to bite open gunpowder cartridges as part of the…
My only January moth for three years running now, keeps up the trend…Epiphyas postvittana, the Light Brown Apple moth, bless ‘em #teammoth
January 13, 2026 at 9:13 AM
My only January moth for three years running now, keeps up the trend…Epiphyas postvittana, the Light Brown Apple moth, bless ‘em #teammoth
My Mothing Year
6636 moths recorded
356 species
142 New for the garden species
144 trap nights
7 Wogans
It’s been a blast, but time to wind it all up- thank you to everyone who liked and interacted with my posts, it’s always been appreciated very much. Cheers!🥂
#TeamMoth
#WildlifeArt
#SciArt
6636 moths recorded
356 species
142 New for the garden species
144 trap nights
7 Wogans
It’s been a blast, but time to wind it all up- thank you to everyone who liked and interacted with my posts, it’s always been appreciated very much. Cheers!🥂
#TeamMoth
#WildlifeArt
#SciArt
December 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
My Mothing Year
6636 moths recorded
356 species
142 New for the garden species
144 trap nights
7 Wogans
It’s been a blast, but time to wind it all up- thank you to everyone who liked and interacted with my posts, it’s always been appreciated very much. Cheers!🥂
#TeamMoth
#WildlifeArt
#SciArt
6636 moths recorded
356 species
142 New for the garden species
144 trap nights
7 Wogans
It’s been a blast, but time to wind it all up- thank you to everyone who liked and interacted with my posts, it’s always been appreciated very much. Cheers!🥂
#TeamMoth
#WildlifeArt
#SciArt
Detail from a 26 year old painting that I trawl out every time the Oak King gets the upper hand in the struggle between the light and the dark. “In Memoriam”
In celebration of the return of the light..
and the insects 😁
Merry Midwinter everyone
#WildlifeArt #Yule #Midwinter #Solstice
In celebration of the return of the light..
and the insects 😁
Merry Midwinter everyone
#WildlifeArt #Yule #Midwinter #Solstice
December 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Detail from a 26 year old painting that I trawl out every time the Oak King gets the upper hand in the struggle between the light and the dark. “In Memoriam”
In celebration of the return of the light..
and the insects 😁
Merry Midwinter everyone
#WildlifeArt #Yule #Midwinter #Solstice
In celebration of the return of the light..
and the insects 😁
Merry Midwinter everyone
#WildlifeArt #Yule #Midwinter #Solstice
A montage of surprise moths (for me) in 2025
Because a) I haven't posted in a while and
b) because everyone else is doin it, and c)
I MISS THEM 😭 #TeamMoth #MothMontage
Because a) I haven't posted in a while and
b) because everyone else is doin it, and c)
I MISS THEM 😭 #TeamMoth #MothMontage
December 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A montage of surprise moths (for me) in 2025
Because a) I haven't posted in a while and
b) because everyone else is doin it, and c)
I MISS THEM 😭 #TeamMoth #MothMontage
Because a) I haven't posted in a while and
b) because everyone else is doin it, and c)
I MISS THEM 😭 #TeamMoth #MothMontage
A new piece before the silver leaf goes on (in case it doesn’t work I can use the copy) ‘By the Light of the Silver-y Moon’ 😁 #teammoth
December 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A new piece before the silver leaf goes on (in case it doesn’t work I can use the copy) ‘By the Light of the Silver-y Moon’ 😁 #teammoth
Reposted by Mavis Bickle
Thanks to YOU, our amazing supporters, we've smashed our Big Give target!
That's £75,140 that will fund vital research and conservation work to help the Dark Bordered Beauty to spread its wings and thrive once more. Thank you 💚
📷: Lindsey Bowes
#ChristmasChallenge #MothsMatter @biggive.bsky.social
That's £75,140 that will fund vital research and conservation work to help the Dark Bordered Beauty to spread its wings and thrive once more. Thank you 💚
📷: Lindsey Bowes
#ChristmasChallenge #MothsMatter @biggive.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Thanks to YOU, our amazing supporters, we've smashed our Big Give target!
That's £75,140 that will fund vital research and conservation work to help the Dark Bordered Beauty to spread its wings and thrive once more. Thank you 💚
📷: Lindsey Bowes
#ChristmasChallenge #MothsMatter @biggive.bsky.social
That's £75,140 that will fund vital research and conservation work to help the Dark Bordered Beauty to spread its wings and thrive once more. Thank you 💚
📷: Lindsey Bowes
#ChristmasChallenge #MothsMatter @biggive.bsky.social
Save the Dark Bordered Beauty, just a few days left with match funding for this campaign …
#mothsmatter #SaveNightButterflies
#mothsmatter #SaveNightButterflies
A future for the Dark Bordered Beauty – Big Give
With one colony left in Yorkshire, the Dark Bordered Beauty moth is teetering on the edge of extinction in England. …
donate.biggive.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Save the Dark Bordered Beauty, just a few days left with match funding for this campaign …
#mothsmatter #SaveNightButterflies
#mothsmatter #SaveNightButterflies
Reposted by Mavis Bickle
Free online talk, tonight, book asap on Eventbright:
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December 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Free online talk, tonight, book asap on Eventbright:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/saving-our...
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Just a couple of December Moths last night, neither of which were in the last trap of the year definitely this time honest 🤞
#mothfacefriday
#teammoth
#mothfacefriday
#teammoth
November 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Just a couple of December Moths last night, neither of which were in the last trap of the year definitely this time honest 🤞
#mothfacefriday
#teammoth
#mothfacefriday
#teammoth
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
