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, 17 October 2022

Large Ranunculus

22 species were recorded last night in my garden, a few were on the house wall, some on the fence, but most were in the trap.
A warm night indeed, with lows of 15 degrees!
A great variety including a further 2 Merveille du Jour, 2 Dark Chestnut and 3 potential mirants, White-point, Plutella xylostella and Nomophila noctuella, the latter two I haven't seen for a few months now.

The best moth of the night was a new one for the garden, a Large Ranunculus. It is the 680th species for the garden.
 
Tonight looks too cold to bother.

Moth garden list for 2022 stands at 655 species
 
Large Ranunculus

 
Posted by Bennyboymothman at 19:27