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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.
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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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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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My Latest Notables and Rarities

Friday 13 August 2021

Moths from work roundup

I run a trap at where I work (A cemetery in East Herts) usually twice a week, it is a fairly basic box with twin 15w tubes (One Actinic and one Synergetic).
It's been doing rather well lately with a huge array of species, but time restricts me going through it in detail.
So here are some highlights from the last couple of weeks.

21/07/21 - Cloaked Minor - Doing incredibly well over the past month, upto 5 or 6 per trapping session.

26/07/21 - Ear Moth - Two mint specimens recorded on the same night.

26/07/21 - Pyrausta despicata - Not a common moth in Herts, only my second here in the County.

26/07/21 - Argyrotaenia ljungiana - I sometimes miss out on the first broods of this species in the garden.  This year i've only seen the 2nd broods once again.

26/07/21 - Waved Black - A really groggy old specimen, but a worthy addition to the site list. The caterpillar feeds on Lichens, plentiful in the cemetery!

01/08/21 - Six-spot Burnet - Common this year in and around the cemetery, especially in rough grassy areas that we haven't mowed, so fresh and exquisite. 

02/08/21 - Lathronympha strigana - A pretty little Tortrix, hard to photograph though!

02/08/21 - Clavigesta purdeyi - A regular moth in the trap owed to how much mature Pine there is here.

03/08/21 - Hoary Footman - Confirmed by hindwing check, an inreasing species in Herts.

03/08/21 - Dark Sword-grass - A nice fresh migrant was good to see on the side of the trap, my 3rd this year.

03/08/21 - Canary-shouldered Thorn - A moth i've never had at home (in 9 years!) great to see. 

05/08/21 - Lozotaeniodes formosana - Another pretty pine feeder, plentiful this year.

05/08/21 - Agriphila geniculea - First hint of late Summer/Early Autuumn when I start seeing these, fresh out of the box.

05/08/21 - Buff Ermine - A second brood mint Buff Ermine was very pleasing indeed.

Agriphila geniculea

Argyrotaenia ljungiana

Buff Ermine

Canary-shouldered Thorn

Clavigesta purdeyi

Dark Sword-grass

Ear Moth

Hoary Footman

Lozotaeniodes formosana

Pyrausta despicata

Six-spot Burnet

Waved Black


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