Katty Baird

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Moths, spiders, other small things. Entomologist. Ecologist at Forest Research. Author of Meetings with Moths. Based in East Lothian, Scotland. Often outdoors.

Oak beauty and yellow horned moth side by side on a branch

Front cover of a new book on British spiders by Richard Lewington. It has an illustration of a Wasp Spider. Published by Bloomsbury.

Painting of Emperor Moths and their caterpillars on heather, by Dorothy Jackson when she was around 16 yrs old

Winter Moth mating on a tree trunk.in the dark. The grey female has no wings and is facing upwards. The male has his pale brown wings held closed like a triangle sail above his body. He is facing downwards. The tips of their abdomens are joined.

A brown and orange Herald moth clinging to a spherical white egg sac of a cave spider hanging from the ceiling of a dark tunnel.