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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.
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
Contact Email : bensale@rocketmail.com

My Latest Notables and Rarities

Tuesday, 29 April 2025

A bumper haul on Sunday

Trying to catch up here currently but work is preventing that, plus it's uber hard to photograph moths when it is sunny, a decent bit of cloud helps to diffuse the light and makes taking photographs a heck of a lot easier!
Just about managed to snap the moths from Sunday night that were still in the fridge (All released and on their way now).
 
I netted at dusk once more for around 45 minutes and was rewarded with a good number of species, including 4 new species for the year. Pick of the micros for me were a rather jazzy and bright Epinotia immundana & two new species of Caloptilia (Because who doesn't like these stilt-like oddities). 

Overnight I even got some micros this time, with a large array of species potted up, no huge numbers of anything, but my garden is like that.
 
My first April record of White-point was worth noting. 

37 species with 11 new, was very good for the end of April, that's generally late May numbers here and is now an April record for my garden.

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 121 species

27/04/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Bright-line Brown-eye 1 [NFY]
Poplar Grey 1 [NFY]
Sallow Kitten 1 [NFY]
Turnip Moth 1 [NFY]
White-point 1 [NFY]
Angle Shades 2
Brindled Pug 1
Chocolate-tip 1
Clouded Drab 1
Common Quaker 1
Double-striped Pug 2
Garden Carpet 1
Grey Dagger 1
Hebrew Character 1
Least Black Arches 1
Muslin Moth 3
Nut-tree Tussock 1
Oak-tree Pug 1
Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
Swallow Prominent 1

Micro Moths
 
Aspilapteryx tringipennella 1 [NFY]
Bryotropha basaltinella 2 [NFY] (netted)
Caloptilia cuculipennella 1 [NFY] (netted)
Caloptilia elongella 1 [NFY] (netted)
Epinotia immundana 1 [NFY] (netted)
Rhyacionia pinivorana 1 [NFY]
Alucita hexadactyla 1 (netted)
Anthophila fabriciana 1 (netted)
Cameraria ohridella 3 (netted)
Elachista canapennella 1
Emmelina monodactyla 1
Epiphyas postvittana 2
Evergestis forficalis 1
Mompha epilobiella 3 (netted)
Mompha subbistrigella 1 (netted)
Nemapogon granella 5 (netted)
Platyedra subcinerea 1
 
White-point

Aspilapteryx tringipennella

Bright-line Brown-eye

Bryotropha basaltinella

Caloptilia cuculipennella

Epinotia immundana

Grapholita funebrana

Poplar Grey

Rhyacionia pinivorana

 
 
Posted by Bennyboymothman at 21:17

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