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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!

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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

Saturday 3 August 2013

Hemel Hempstead Field Trip - 31/07/13

David, Roger and myself decided to blitz Gadesprings with as many traps as we could use, so plumping for 3 off the mains
and 2 further along the canal running from the generator. The hope was to get some of the more uncommon Wainscots, but we did not manage hardly any, with just a few Smoky, one Common and one Southern.


Numbers below are approximate

31/07/13 - Gadesprings - Hemel Hempstead - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 160w MBT Trap, 1x 22w Actinic + 26w Blacklight Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Trap run from 9.00pm until 2.00am
(Traps highlighted in red run all night)

175 Species in total

97 Macro Moths & 78 Micro Moths

Macro Moths


Barred Red 1
Beautiful Hook-tip 3
Black Arches 2
Bordered Sallow 1
Bright-line Brown-eye 4
Brimstone Moth 2
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 8
Buff Arches 1
Buff Ermine 1
Buff Footman 10
Clay 2
Cloaked Minor 2
Clouded Border 1
Common Carpet 5
Common Emerald 1
Common Footman 10
Common Rustic 10
Common Wave 1
Common Wainscot 1
Copper Underwing 1
Coronet 10
Dark Arches 20
Dark Umber 1
Dingy Footman 2
Dingy Shears 2
Dot Moth 2
Double Lobed 12
Double Square-spot 8
Double-striped Pug 3
Drinker 3
Dun-bar 10
Ear Moth 1
Early Thorn 3
Engrailed 1
Fan-foot 3
Flame 3
Flame Shoulder 5
Gothic 1
Green Arches 1
Green Pug 1
Grey Dagger 2
Heart & Dart 2
July Highflyer 5
Knot Grass 1
Large Twin-spot Carpet 2
Large Yellow Underwing 6
Least Carpet 2
Least Yellow Underwing 1
Leopard Moth 1
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 5
Lesser Yellow Underwing 10
Light Arches 1
Maple Pug 2
Marbled Minor 1
Mottled Beauty 1
Mouse Moth 1
Oak Hook-tip 3
Orange Swift 8
Pale Prominent 1
Peach Blossom 1
Pebble Prominent 1
Peppered Moth 2
Pretty Chalk Carpet 1
Red Twin-spot Carpet 3
Riband Wave 5
Rosy Rustic 1
Ruby Tiger 4
Scalloped Oak 1
Scarce Footman 2
Scarce Silver-lines 1
Scorched Carpet 1
Setaceous Hebrew Character 1
Shaded Pug 2
Silver-Y 8
Single-dotted Wave 3
Slender Pug 4
Small Blood-vein 1
Small Fan-footed Wave 10
Small Phoenix 2
Small Ranunculus 1
Small Rivulet 1
Small Seraphim 1
Smoky Wainscot 5
Snout 2
Southern Wainscot 1
Spectacle 1
Straw Underwing 2
Swallow-tailed Moth 1
Tawny Marbled Minor 1
Toadflax Pug 1
Tree-lichen Beauty 10
Uncertain 5
V-pug 12
White-spotted Pug 2
Willow Beauty 3
Wormwood Pug 1
Yellow Shell 3


Micro Moths

Acleris emargana 1
Acleris forsskaleana 8
Acleris variegana 1
Agapeta hamana 3
Agonopterix heracliana 2
Agriphila straminella 50+
Agriphila tristella 10
Agriphila tristella 2
Apotomis lineana 2
Archips xylosteana 2
Argyrotaenia ljungiana 2
Batia unitella 4
Batrachedra praeangusta 1
Brachmia blandella 1
Caloptilia robustella 1
Caloptilia rufipennella 1
Cameraria ohridella 1
Carcina quercana 10
Cataclysta lemnata 1
Catoptria falsella
Celypha lacunana 1
Celypha striana 1
Chrysoteuchia culmella 1
Clepsis consimilana 2
Clepsis spectrana 3
Cnephasia sp 5
Coleophora sp 10
Crambus pascuella 1
Cydia splendana 2
Dipleurina lacustrata 2
Ditula angustiarana 2
Elachista maculicerusella 5
Emmelina monodactyla 1
Endotricha flammealis 5
Epermenia chaerophyllella 1
Epiblema uddmanniana 1
Epinotia brunnichana 2
Epinotia nisella 2
Epinotia ramella 2
Eucosma campoliliana 5
Eudemis profundana 5
Eudonia mercurella 3
Eurrhypara hortulata 1
Euzophera pinguis 1
Gypsonoma dealbana 2
Hedya nubiferana 2
Helcystogramma rufescens 1
Hofmannophila pseudospretella 1
Hypsopygia costalis 1
Limnaecia phragmitella 2
Lozotaeniodes formosanus 1
Mompha ochraceella 2
Monopis weaverella 1
Nomophila noctuella 1
Pandemis corylana 5
Pandemis heparana 2
Paraswammerdamia albicapitella 1
Phalonidia manniana 1
Phycita roborella 5
Platyptilia pallidactyla 5
Pleuroptya ruralis 80+
Plutella xylostella 2
Pterophorus pentadactyla 5
Pyrausta aurata 1
Recurvaria leucatella 1
Rhopobota naevana 1
Rhyacionia pinicolana 1
Scoparia ambigualis 2
Scrobipalpa sp 1
Spilonota ocellana 2
Tinea trinotella 1
Trachycera advenella 5
Udea olivalis 1
Udea prunalis 5
Yponomeuta cagnagella 2
Yponomeuta evonymella 10
Ypsolopha scabrella 1
Zeiraphera isertana 5


Acleris emergana












Epinotia nisella










Gothic












Gypsonoma dealbana










Mouse Moth












Rhopobota naevana











Rhyacionia pinicolana










Small Seraphim











Tree-lichen Beauty













White-spotted Pug

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