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
Contact Email : bensale@rocketmail.com

My Latest Notables and Rarities

Friday, 23 May 2025

A bit more settled

A slightly warmer day followed by a calmer and warmer night was Sundays weather, enough to record a healthy amount of species, but still with rather low numbers.
 
10 new species was very good, which included only my 2nd ever garden Great Prominent (Last seen in 2023).
The first of the blunderwings, Large Yellow Underwing, which used to be a common moth, these seem scarcer these days for me and I certainly don't record droves of them on a nightly basis.
 
A spanking Shears was pleasing, a moth of open grassland, and an equally impressive Elephant Hawk-moth, 2 of them as well.
 
The weather will hopefully warm up a bit now at night, with much needed rain on the immediate forecast, but how much will we actually get?
 

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 218 species

18/05/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Elephant Hawk-moth 2 [NFY]
Freyer's Pug 1 [NFY]
Great Prominent 1 [NFY]
Large Nutmeg 1 [NFY]
Large Yellow Underwing 1 [NFY]
Light Emerald 4 [NFY]
Shears 1 [NFY]
Brimstone Moth 1
Buff-tip 1
Burnished Brass 1
Cinnabar 1
Common Pug 1
Common Swift 2
Common Wainscot 3
Double-striped Pug 1
Eyed Hawk-moth 1
Figure of Eighty 1
Flame Shoulder 1
Garden Carpet 1
Green Carpet 1
Green Pug 1
Grey-pine Carpet 1
Heart & Dart 2
Light Brocade 2
Lime Hawk-moth 1
Marbled Minor sp 7
Mottled Pug 1
Orange Footman 2
Pale Mottled Willow 1
Pale Tussock 2
Rustic Shoulder-knot 1
Setaceous Hebrew Character 1
Shuttle-shaped Dart 3
Spectacle 1
Swallow Prominent 1
Treble Lines 1
Turnip Moth 2
Vine's Rustic 3
Willow Beauty 5

Micro Moths 

Crambus lathoniellus 1 [NFY]
Nemapogon koenigi 1 [NFY] to ves lure
Scrobipalpa acuminatella 1 [NFY]
Aphomia sociella 1
Celypha lacunana 2
Cochylichroa atricapitana 1
Coleophora alcyonipennella/frischella  1
Dichrorampha plumbagana 1
Epiphyas postvittana 3
Hedya pruniana 1
Mompha subbistrigella 1
Monopis crocicapitella 1
Sitochroa verticalis 1

Shears

Coleophora alcyonipennella/frischella

Crambus lathoniellus

Elephant Hawk-moth

Freyer's Pug

Great Prominent

Large Nutmeg

Large Yellow Underwing

Light Emerald

Scrobipalpa acuminatella

 

Posted by Bennyboymothman at 22:47

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