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

Monday, 23 September 2013

Jammed another migrant from my postage stamp sized garden

A good catch of 56 moths of 20 species, I was just going through the egg trays as you do, more brown stuff, o a Burnished Brass...nice, a few Barred Sallow adding a bit of colour  and a different Large Ranunculus making it look better  all of a sudden with a quickly potted Ypsolopha sylvella......then out of the corner of my eye I had missed a VESTAL on the underside of the Robinson collar, I was shaking as I went to pot it up and what did it do, it flew off! luckily it went straight to the light and I got it in time, phew!
It is my 1st UK record of this delicate and pretty moth having seen it a few times over the years in various Countries and recently this year in Egypt.
Very happy! the moth didn't play ball so a semi-decent photo is all I can manage for now!


Catch Report - 22/09/13 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson trap

Macro Moths

1x Vestal [NEW!]
18x Large Yellow Underwing
3x Lesser Yellow Underwing
8x Lunar Underwing
4x Barred Sallow
2x Vine's Rustic
2x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
1x Angle Shades
1x Willow Beauty
4x Setaceous Hebrew Character
1x Common Wainscot
1x Burnished Brass
1x Turnip Moth
1x Large Ranunculus
1x Square-spot Rustic
1x Treble Brown Spot
  
Micro Moths

2x Epiphyas postvittana
1x Acleris variegana 
1x Ypsolopha sylvella
2x Emmelina monodactyla 
Vestal











Ypsolopha sylvella
Posted by Bennyboymothman at 19:10