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

Friday, 11 July 2025

June comes to an end with a bang with two garden firsts!

Well what a month June was for moths! Warm days and warm night were virtually constant, with few blips or dips.
The much needed rain never really materialised sadly, with a couple of days with a few light showers, this following on from one of the driest springs on record, is rather catastrophic for the long term.
 
The 29th yielded a healthy 86 species with 11 new for the year, two of which were new for the garden, one a wanderer from a nearby population (Kent Black Arches) & a migrant (Small Mottled Willow).
 
Another good migrant was a smart Acrobasis tumidana, the second for the garden of this scarce visitor.
 
Another good micro was the pine feeder Dioryctria schuetzeella, the least common of the group represented in my garden.
 
A really snazzy dark Dichrorampha species was retained, speckled with gold scales, it was most unusual. 
  

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 514 species

29/06/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Copper Underwing 1 [NFY]
Kent Black Arches 1 [NFG]
Small Mottled Willow 1 [NFG]
Southern Wainscot 1 [NFY]

Micro Moths

Acrobasis tumidana 1 [NFY]
Agapeta zoegana 1 [NFY]
Agonopterix subpropinquella 1 [NFY]
Calamotropha paludella 1 [NFY]
Dichrorampha sp 1 (TBC)
Dioryctria schuetzeella 1 [NFY]
Elophila nymphaeata 1 [NFY]
Scoparia subfusca 1 [NFY]

Southern Wainscot

Acrobasis advenella

Acrobasis tumidana

Agapeta zoegana

Agonopterix subpropinquella

Calamotropha paludella

Copper Underwing

Dichrorampha sp

Dioryctria schuetzeella

Kent Black Arches

Scoparia subfusca

Small Mottled Willow

 

Posted by Bennyboymothman at 22:47