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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.
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Thanks for looking and happy Mothing!

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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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My Latest Notables and Rarities

Thursday, 26 June 2025

Some more garden moths

Another good catch last Wednesday, still nowhere near catching up my my reports!

A great selection of macros and micros were featured in the catch, with many new ones for the year.
 
The temperature was once again warm, even hot at 28 degrees and with lows of 18c, it was the perfect storm for moth activity.
 
Keeping it short, the best were two new garden micro moths, the first, the Rose Tortrix (Archips rosana). A really dumpy looking species compared with the longer-winged cerasana/heparana.
 
The second was a well overdue common moth, Teleiodes luculella. But it is associated more with mature Oaks, which there aren't many of round here sadly. 
 
Royal Mantle was lovely to see, as was a fresh Six-belted Clearwing to it's own lure during the day. 

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 420 species

18/06/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths
 
Brown-line Bright-eye 1 [NFY]
Dingy Shears 1 [NFY]
Royal Mantle 1 [NFY]
Scarce Footman 1 [NFY]
Six-belted Clearwing 1 [NFY]


Micro Moths 
 
Acrobasis advenella 1 [NFY]
Archips rosana 1 [NFG]
Carcina quercana 1 [NFY]
Lozotaeniodes formosana 1 [NFY]
Pyrausta despicata 1 [NFY]
Sorhagenia sp 1 [NFY]
Teleiodes luculella 1 [NFG]
Phyllocnistis sp 1 (TBC)
 
Teleiodes luculella

Archips rosana

Brown-line Bright-eye

Cacoecimorpha pronubana - Female

Carcina quercana

Dichrorampha simpliciana

Dingy Shears

Lozotaeniodes formosana

Pyrausta despicata

Royal Mantle

Scarce Footman

Six-belted Clearwing

Sorhagenia sp

 

Posted by Bennyboymothman at 20:40

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