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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!

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, 10 June 2025

Some more welcome early summer species

Not a huge catch here on Friday night, but we had this at the start of last June, where we battled with annoying winds and low overnight temperatures.

But, as it is June it is always worth running the trap as we approach peak moth season. 

An Aethes tesserana was the only new moth netted during a brief dusk session (As it was super windy).

Highlights were two Barred species, both Straw & Yellow and the first of the common Eudonia species, mercurella, one that will battle with lacustrata to take the top spot as the season progresses. 

Two quite different Cnephasia species were retained for dissection. 

And a cracking purple-tinged Snout was nice to see also, much better than my worn year first specimen! 

Come on night time temps, perk up a bit please! 

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 312 species

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

Macro Moths

Barred Straw 1 [NFY]
Barred Yellow 1 [NFY]
Flame 1 [NFY]
Buff Ermine 2
Buff-tip 2
Common Marbled Carpet 1
Common Swift 1
Common Wainscot 1
Dark Arches 2
Double-striped Pug 1
Elephant Hawk-moth 5
Garden Carpet 1
Green Pug 1
Heart & Club 2
Heart & Dart 4
Large Yellow Underwing 1
Marbled Minor sp 5
Nutmeg 1
Pale Prominent 1
Privet Hawk-moth 2
Setaceous Hebrew Character 1
Small Elephant Hawk-moth 2
Snout 1
Treble Lines 1
Turnip Moth 1
Vine's Rustic 1
White-point 1
Willow Beauty 4

Micro Moths 

Aethes tesserana 1 [NFY]
Eudonia mercurella 1 [NFY]
Celypha striana 4
Cnephasia sp 2 (TBC)
Emmelina monodactyla 1
Homoeosoma sinuella 1
Scythropia crataegella 1
Tinagma ocnerostomella 1 
 
Flame

Eudonia mercurella

Cnephasia sp 1

Cnephasia sp 2

Barred Yellow

Barred Straw

Aethes tesserana

Snout


 
 
Posted by Bennyboymothman at 20:11

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