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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

Thursday, 1 May 2025

Warm weather and things go mad

Starting to fall behind now with my moth reports, the trap is starting to get busier now in my garden, a few weeks earlier than normal, but with these warm days, even when the nights haven't been particularly stellar, the variety is still very pleasing here in my garden.

I just never seem to get numbers of anything here but the plethora of lepidoptera more than makes up for it!

Monday was a warm day, with highs of 22 degrees, but still a massivbe lack of cloud cover. The only plus was that it was a new moon.

The night dropped to 7 degrees, far from ideal but there was still a pleasing amount to pot up and inspect.

The best moth was a new moth for me, netted at dusk (the deadly method strikes again) a spankingly fresh Cydia servillana. I do have the lure for this particular species hanging in my garden currently, maybe just maybe it was mildly attracted to the scent? who knows, but it is the first time i've used the lure in the garden. 

Other highlights included the rarely recorded here, Monopis obviella (size, and hindwing checked) a male that came to the Lunar Hornet Clearwing Lure & a new for garden but very faded Cochylis nana, a tiny but well overdue micro, smaller than some of the similar species in the genus.


Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 132 species

28/04/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths 

Buff-tip 1 [NFY]
Flame Shoulder 2 [NFY]
Iron Prominent 2 [NFY]
Ochreous Pug 1 [NFY]
Orange Footman 1 [NFY] 
Red Twin-spot Carpet 1 [NFY]
Waved Umber 1 [NFY]
Yellow-barred Brindle 1 [NFY]
Brimstone Moth 2
Brindled Beauty 1
Brindled Pug 2
Chinese Character 1
Clouded Drab 1
Common Quaker 1
Garden Carpet 1
Hebrew Character 1
Latticed Heath 1
Light Brocade 1
Muslin Moth 1
Pale Prominent 1
Shuttle-shaped Dart 2
Spectacle 1

Micro Moths 

Cochylis nana 1 [NFG]
Cydia servillana 1 [NEW]
Monopis obviella 1 [NFY] (to LUN lure)
Grapholita funebrana 3 (to FUN lure)
Emmelina monodactyla 1
 
Yellow-barred Brindle

Buff-tip

Cochylis nana

Cydia servillana

Iron Prominent

Monopis obviella

Ochreous Pug

Orange Footman

Waved Umber

 
Posted by Bennyboymothman at 23:01

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