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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

Sunday, 18 May 2025

Ghastly northern wind

This awful wind just will not leave us alone, and having a north facing garden and very little cover, the garden trap is extremely exposed. 
Once again, a windy cool night, but not as cold as of late, hovering around 11 degrees, we also had a fair bit of cloud cover which helped.
30 species was a very good return given how hard it's been in the east. What was more pleasing was 12 new ones for the year, smashing through the 200 species barrier for the year. 
 
New species included a great big Privet Hawk-moth, the delicately dappled in pink, Peach Blossom and the uncommon Small Clouded Brindle.
 
The weather still remains fairly average with no warm spikes and very low humidity.
 

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 208 species

17/05/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Buff Ermine 1 [NFY]
Mottled Pug 2 [NFY]
Peach Blossom 1 [NFY]
Privet Hawk-moth 1 [NFY]
Seraphim 1 [NFY]
Small Clouded Brindle 1 [NFY]
Treble-bar 1 [NFY]
V-pug 1 [NFY]
Angle Shades 1
Cinnabar 1 
Common Pug 1
Common Swift 2
Common Wainscot 2
Double-striped Pug 1
Heart & Dart 1
Marbled Clover 1
Marbled Minor sp 4
Pebble Prominent 1
Peppered Moth 1
Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
Toadflax Brocade 1
Treble Lines 3
Vine's Rustic 3
White-point 1
Willow Beauty 1

Micro Moths

Coleophora alcyonipennella/frischella 1 [NFY]
Hofmannophila pseudospretella 1 [NFY]
Neocochylis molliculana 1 [NFY]
Phyllonorycter maestingella 1 [NFY]
Epiphyas postvittana 2

V-pug

Buff Ermine

Hofmannophila pseudospretella

Jersey Tiger Caterpillar

Mottled Pug

Peach Blossom

Phyllonorycter maestingella

Privet Hawk-moth

Small Clouded Brindle

 

Posted by Bennyboymothman at 19:50

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