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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

Friday, 4 July 2025

Warming up with more new moths

With a larger catch on the 25th of innumerable species, things were really ramping up.
An extremely warm night holiding above 20 degrees when I got home at 2am from a field trip.
 
I decided to pack my trap up, as it would be impossible to get up again at 4am to go through it, then up at 6.30 for work!
 
It was busy and moths all over the place, I quickly potted up anything new and retired to my bed. 
 
11 new species were potted up, best was a garden first Shoulder-striped Wainscot, a pretty widespread and common moth that avoids my garden like the plague!
 
Other highlights included a cracking Acleris holmiana, the smart and uncommon here Buff Arches.
 
3 other scarce micros were present, they were Recurvaria nanella, Sciota adelphella & Vitula biviella.
 
There were also two tinies that I potted up. Through bleary eyes they looked the same, most probably Bucculatrix albedinella, but when I got them both under a hand lens the next morning, I discovered that the other one was in fact a Phyllonorycter comparella. 

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 481 species

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

Macro Moths

Buff Arches 1 [NFY]
Foxglove Pug 1 [NFY]
Shaded Pug 1 [NFY]
Shoulder-striped Wainscot 1 [NFY]

Micro Moths

Acleris holmiana 1 [NFY]
Acrobasis suavella 1 [NFY]
Bucculatrix albedinella 1 [NFY]
Catoptria pinella 1 [NFY]
Phyllonorycter comparella 1 [NFY]
Recurvaria nanella 1 [NFY]
Sciota adelphella 1 [NFY]

 

Shoulder-striped Wainscot

Shaded Pug

Sciota adelphella

Recurvaria nanella

Phyllonorycter comparella

Lesser Yellow Underwing

Foxglove Pug

Catoptria pinella

Buff Arches

Bucculatrix albedinella

Acrobasis suavella

Acleris holmiana

Vitula biviella

Posted by Bennyboymothman at 21:25

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