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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 5 October 2016

Into September with a few new species!

This catch was from the 04th of September and featured a good array of late Summer early Autumn species and amongst other things, not just two new species for my garden but two new species I had never seen before!
Both Ypsolopha vittella and Phyllonorycter geniculella. Phyllonorycter geniculella was to be expected as I have oodles of Sycamore near me and probably should look for the leaf mines shortly as well, such a pretty but tiny delicate moth.

These two new additions bring the garden species list to a whopping 598 since my first trapping effort on the 17th of August 2012.

Turnip Moth was new for the year as was Sallow, Centre-barred Sallow and Lunar Underwing. Sallow... after a two year gap of not seeing one in the garden which I find odd, is a common moth out on field trips.

A late and mint Common Rustic was worthy of note, these surely must be coming to an end by now!

Also a trickle of migrants seem to still be reaching my trap and although with still very warm day-time temperatures we are slowly losing out to the overnight chill that we typically see in Autumn.
 
Catch Report - 04/09/16 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap
 
Macro Moths

Centre-barred Sallow 1 [NFY] 
Lunar Underwing 1 [NFY]
Sallow 1 [NFY]
Turnip Moth 1 [NFY]
Angle Shades 4
Brimstone Moth 3
Cabbage Moth 1
Common Rustic 2
Copper Underwing 2
Common Wainscot 2
Dusky Thorn 3
Flounced Rustic 1
Garden Carpet 2
Green Carpet 1
Large Yellow Underwing 19
Lesser Yellow Underwing 1
Pale Mottled Willow 2
Setaceous Hebrew Character 5
Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
Silver-Y
Small Dusty Wave 1
Snout 1
Square-spot Rustic 1
Vine's Rustic 2
White-point 1
Willow Beauty 5

Micro Moths

Phyllonorycter geniculella 1 [NEW!] 
Ypsolopha vittella 1 [NEW!]
Acleris sparsana 1 [NFY]
Amblyptilia acanthadactyla 1
Agriphila tristella 1
Blastobasis adustella 2
Byrotropha domestica 1
Carcina quercana 1
Celypha lacunana 2 
Clepsis consimilana 1
Emmelina monodactyla 2
Epiphyas postvittana 1
Eudonia pallida 1
Hofmannophila pseudospretella 2
Pandemis corylana 1
Plutella xylostella 2
Stigmella sp 1

Phyllonorycter geniculella











Ypsolopha vittella











Sallow












Eudonia pallida













Copper Underwing













Common Rustic

Posted by Bennyboymothman at 09:50

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