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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.
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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.

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Contact Email : bensale@rocketmail.com

My Latest Notables and Rarities

Wednesday 6 June 2012

Catch Report - 30/05/12 - Back Garden/Farmland

Another very pleasing catch and some new species for the year.
Most notable was a lovely migrant White-point and the micro Lathronympha strigana, which is a new one for me.
The weather was again mild but very changeable with scattered showers.


Catch Report - Braughing 30/05/12 - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap


Macro Moths

1x White-point [NFY]
1x Middle-barred Minor [NFY]
2x Ingrailed Clay [NFY]
1x Small Square-spot [NFY]
3x Buff-tip
6x White Ermine
28x Treble Lines
18x Rustic Shoulder-knot
4x Setaceous Hebrew Character
2 Poplar Hawk-moth
3x Nutmeg
9x Green Carpet
1x Common Carpet
1x Peppered Moth
35x Common Swift
3x Common Pug
2x Spruce Carpet
2x Brimstone Moth
1x Grey Pug
1x Heart & Dart
2x Brown Rustic
1x Lime-speck Pug
1x Cinnabar
13x Silver-Y
1x Spectacle
5x Angle Shades
4x Flame Shoulder
1x Red-green Carpet
2x Pale Oak Beauty
1x Latticed Heath
1x Small Waved Umber
1x Silver-ground Carpet
2x Shuttle-shaped Dart

Micro Moths

1x Lathronympha strigana [NEW!]

2x Epiblema cynosbatella
1x Syndemis musculana
6x Celypha lacunana
2x Garden Pebble Evergestis forficalis
4x Diamond-back Moth Plutella xylostella
4x Bee Moth Aphomia sociella
1x Crambus lathoniellus




White-point












Ingrailed Clay












Middle-barred Minor












Small Square-spot












Grey Pug










Lathronympha strigana


Posted by Bennyboymothman at 00:01

2 comments:

  1. Unknown6 June 2012 at 06:23

    Ben,

    Going by the orange frons, is your Eucosma not Lathronympha strigana?

    Dave

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  2. Bennyboymothman6 June 2012 at 08:09

    Hi Dave, yep had an email from my CR to say it's that too, thanks for helping :)

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