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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.

If you have any questions or enquiries then please feel free to email me
Contact Email : bensale@rocketmail.com

My Latest Notables and Rarities

Thursday, 3 July 2025

Another great catch, this is becoming a common theme!

What a year for moths! In my garden and locally it's been a busy summer so far here in the east, with large catches and with every night producing new moths, some scarce ones in the mix as well.

I finally got a migrant as well, a rather 'dark' Dark Sword-grass. As others were swimming in migrants, particularly on the south cosast, the east was experiencing a migrant drought, even more so away from the coast.

Best macro moth of the night easily went to a stunning Wood Carpet, this being the 3rd record for the garden. Quite similar to Common Carpet, but bigger and with a wider central white band that remains unbroken (apart from a few spots towards the apex).

Best micro moth was the iridescent Coleophora deauratella. I like these bronzy/greeny ones because they can mostly be done without need of chopping their bits up. deauratella has thick basal tufts much like mayrella, but lacks the white zebra banding on the antennae, instead sporting thick white tips.

The micro moths are 10 species ahead in the running currently, with 240 against 230 macro species.

The weather remains fine. 

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 470 species

23/06/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Dark Sword-grass 1 [NFY]
Drinker 1 [NFY]
Wood Carpet 1 [NFY]
Wormwood Pug 1 [NFY]

Micro Moths

Coleophora deauratella 1 [NFY]
Eucosma obumbratana 1 [NFY]

Wormwood Pug

Brown-line Bright-eye

Coleophora deauratella

Dark Sword-grass

Drinker

Early Thorn

Eucosma obumbratana

Wood Carpet

 

Posted by Bennyboymothman at 22:49

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