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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.

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Contact Email : bensale@rocketmail.com

My Latest Notables and Rarities

Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Macro/Micro Spl/it

A very warm day last Tuesday, with a real humid feel to the day and a cloudy evening with lows of 18 degrees, the trap was heaving from midnight, just as I turned in for the night I had potted 7 new ones, the morning was going to be busy!
Up at 3.30 and indeed there were lots of moths, I didn't have time to do a full count, but easily 70 species were in and around the trap. 
13 new species was the total, very good indeed! It also was a 50/50 split with the macro & micro moth species for the year, with 204 a-piece.
 
Best were a large female Lilac Beauty, a splash of bright colours from Rhyacionia pinicolana & Rosy Footman and most notable was only my 2nd garden record of Timothy Tortrix (Zelotherses paleana), a micro moth that used to be really common but seems to have got scarce in recent years.
 
The summer continued and the weather was set to stay above average for the time of year. 

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 408 species

17/06/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths 

Dark Umber 1 [NFY]
Lilac Beauty 1 [NFY]
Mottled Beauty 1 [NFY]
Rosy Footman 1 [NFY]
Rustic 1 [NFY] 

Micro Moths 

Batia lunaris 2 [NFY]
Bryotropha affinis 1 [NFY]
Epinotia nanana 1 [NFY]
Hypsopygia glaucinalis 1 [NFY]
Metalampra italica 1 [NFY]
Rhyacionia pinicolana 1 [NFY]
Yponomeuta cag mal pad 1 [NFY]
Zelotherses paleana 1 [NFY]
 
Zelotherses paleana

Batia lunaris

Bryotropha affinis

Dark Umber

Epinotia nanana

Lilac Beauty

Metalampra italica

Rhyacionia pinicolana

Rosy Footman

Rustic

Yponomeuta cag mal pad

 
Posted by Bennyboymothman at 20:19

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