Welcome

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, I have now removed commenting as the bots were starting to appear
Contact Email : bensale@rocketmail.com

My Latest Notables and Rarities

Tuesday, 15 July 2025

A few more moths as conditions stagnate

The 8th of July was still in the cooler blip, by cooler I mean it was still 24 degrees and 14c at night, hardly bad at all, but the catch was 1/2 of what it was 4 days previous.

Still, it was an improvement on the paltry 6th with 5 new species for the year, the best was the rather local Assara terebrella, a pine feeder.

The first of the Tree-lichen Beauties also arrived, I thought this was ridiculously early, but apparently not, with the same date in 2023 and the 11th in 2022 as the first dates for those years. 

Things started hotting up once more! 

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 540 species

08/07/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Maple Pug 1 [NFY]
Tree-lichen Beauty 2 [NFY]

Micro Moths

Aproaerema anthyllidella 1 [NFY]
Assara terebrella 1 [NFY]
Elachista stabilella 1 [NFY]
Coleophora sp 1 (TBC)

Tree-lichen Beauty

Acleris variegana

Agonopterix subpropinquella

Aproaerema anthyllidella

Assara terebrella

Coleophora sp

Elachista stabilella

Maple Pug

 

Posted by Bennyboymothman at 20:20