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, 22 July 2025

A second tumidana!

I was amazed to find my 2nd Acrobasis tumidana in my trap on the 14th of July, the 3rd garden record and it certainly has been a bumper year for them on the south coast, where they may possibly be breeding locally. 
A warm day followed by a warm night resulted in over 60 species onve more, but far too knackered to count everything.
A few less new ones than recent times.
 
Dioryctria simplicella was the best moth of the night, an uncommon visitor here and one of 4 similar species. 
 
A lovely Female Oak Eggar was pleasing, as well as a very late year first Poplar Hawk-moth! And a lovely buff-coloured Female it was as well.

 

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 567 species

14/07/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Poplar Hawk-moth 1 [NFY]

Micro Moths

Acrobasis tumidana 1 (2nd for the year)
Agriphila straminella 1 [NFY]
Dioryctria simplicella 1 [NFY]

Turnip Moth

Acrobasis tumidana

Acrobasis tumidana

Agriphila straminella

Dioryctria simplicella

Oak Eggar

Poplar Hawk-moth

 

Posted by Bennyboymothman at 20:21