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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!

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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

Thursday 13 September 2018

Garden Catch 01/07/18 - Jolly start to July!

Onwards I march with my slightly out of date records! July started with a bang, ad a whole host of new additions to the garden year list were noted, but more notably 4 new for garden macro moths, 3 of which were totally unexpected and just not on my radar at all.

Not 1 but 2 migrant Four-spotted Footman (males) were both in the trap, I literally couldn't believe my eyes.
Also Larch Pug is only my second in 12 years and despite being worn, a Green Arches was a little out of it's usual habitat zone of damp carr woodland. 

Scarce Silver-lines was also good to add, but it was a bit bitter-sweet, with it found dead and rolled up in a spider's web, this isn't the first time that this has happened with garden firsts, with both my garden first Eyed Hawk-moth and Early Moth found in a similar state. 

Garden species count for 2018 now upto 307.

Here are the new for year species.

Catch Report - 01/07/18 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

Four-spotted Footman [NFG]
Larch Pug [NFG]
Scarce Silver-lines [NFG]
Green Arches [NFG]
Marbled Beauty
Phoenix
Satin Beauty
Scalloped Oak
Scorched Carpet
Small Rivulet

Micro Moths

Argyresthia brockeella
Catoptria pinella

Catoptria pinella

Epagoge grotiana

Four-spotted Footman

Four-spotted Footman

Green Arches

Phoenix

Scalloped Oak

Scarce Silver-lines

Small Rivulet

Posted by Bennyboymothman at 22:04

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