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Hello and welcome to my moth Blog. I now reside in a small village in East Cambridgeshire called Fordham. My Blog's aim is to promote and encourage others to participate in the wonderful hobby that is Moth-trapping.
Moth records are vital for building a picture of our ecosystem around us, as they really are the bottom of the food chain. They are an excellent early indicator of how healthy a habitat is. I openly encourage people to share their findings via social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter & Instagram.
So why do we do it? well for some people it is to get an insight into the world of Moths, for others it is to build a list of species much like 'Twitching' in the Bird world. The reason I do it....you just never know what you might find when you open up that trap! I hope to show what different species inhabit Cambridgeshire and neighbouring counties.
On this Blog you will find up-to-date records and pictures.
I run a trap regularly in my garden and also enjoy doing field trips to various localities over several different counties.
Please also check out the links in the sidebar to the right for other people's Blogs and informative Websites.
Thanks for looking and happy Mothing!

KEY

NFY = New Species For The Year
NFG = New Species For The Garden
NEW! = New Species For My Records

Any Species highlighted in RED signifies a totally new species for my records.

If you have any questions or enquiries then please feel free to email me
Contact Email : bensale@rocketmail.com

My Latest Notables and Rarities

Thursday 12 May 2011

Field Trip - Parndon Wood - Wednesday night

Had a terrific night at Parndon Wood last night with 2 possibly 3 new species for me, also my second sighting of Poplar Lutestring, an extremely local moth and one I had a lttle later on in the year in 2010. This still is the only site where I have recorded this moth.

It was nice to see 2 Ptycholoma lecheana, a very striking species of Tortricidae

The weather was indeed against me again, with clearing skies and a drop from 14c last night at 10pm to 7c this morning, again this probably affected the numbers.



11/05/11 - Parndon Wood - 125w MV Robinson Trap + 22w hanging Actinic with vertical and horizontal white sheets.

Macro Moths

1x Poplar Lutestring
4x Green Silver-lines
12x Pale Tussock
13x Orange Footman
6x Pale Oak Beauty
2x Light Emerald
6x Brindled White-spot
2x Scorched Carpet
4x Scorched Wing
1x Common White Wave
1x Treble Lines
1x Knot Grass
1x Mottled Pug
14x Common Swift
1x Muslin Moth


Poplar Lutestring










Common White Wave








A couple of Green Silver-lines










Pale Oak Beauty







Scorched Wing








Micro Moths

1x Capua vulgana [NEW]
2x Ptycholoma lecheana [NEW]
1x Esperia sulphurella
1x Cork Moth Nemapogon cloacella
2x Cnephasia sp.
1x Incurvaria masculella
4x Incurvaria oehlmanniella
1x Deltaornix torquillella
1x Nematopogon swammerdamella


Ptycholoma lecheana








Capua vulgana
Posted by Bennyboymothman at 07:58

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