Welcome

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, I have now removed commenting as the bots were starting to appear
Contact Email : bensale@rocketmail.com

My Latest Notables and Rarities

Sunday, 21 August 2011

Catch Report - 20/08/11 - Farmland/Back Garden - Hertfordshire

Not a riveting night by any means but a few moths about which wasn't too bad mostly made up by 42x Setaceous Hebrew Character, 22x Flame Shoulder and 14x Latticed Heath. New species for the year included Square-spot Rustic, Agriphila geniculea & Eudonia angustea


Catch Report - 20/08/11 - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap - Farmland/back garden


Macro Moths

7x Brimstone Moth
1x Burnished Brass
4x Common Rustic
5x Common Wainscot
1x Common Wave
1x Copper Underwing
1x Dark Arches
1x Dusky Thorn
1x Early Thorn
22x Flame Shoulder
3x Flounced Rustic
1x Green Carpet
8x Large Yellow Underwing
14x Latticed Heath
1x Least Carpet
5x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
1x Lesser Yellow Underwing
5x Light Emerald
2x Orange Swift
2x Riband Wave
1x Rosy Rustic
2x Rustic
42x Setaceous Hebrew Character
2x Shuttle-shaped Dart
1x Small Waved Umber
2x Square-spot Rustic [NFY]
2x Square-spotted Clay
1x Straw Dot
2x Straw Underwing
1x Turnip Moth
10x Uncertain
3x Vine's Rustic
1x Willow Beauty

Square-spot Rustic











Setaceous Hebrew Character












Common Rustic













Micro Moths

1x Agriphila geniculea [NFY]
1x Eudonia angustea [NFY]
13x Agriphila tristella
2x Agriphila straminella
1x Emmelina monodactyla
2x Brown House-moth Hofmannophila pseudospretella
2x Mother of Pearl Pleuroptya ruralis
1x Agapeta hamana
1x Helcystogramma rufescens
1x Cyclamen Tortrix Clepsis spectrana
1x Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis corylana
1x Eudonia pallida
1x Eucosma ombumbratana
2x Chrysoteuchia culmella
3x Catoptria falsella
2x Acrobasis consociella
4x Celypha lacunana
4x Blastobasis adustella
2x Crambus perlella

Eudonia angustea












Agriphila geniculea

Posted by Bennyboymothman at 09:39