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, 26 August 2025

Quality moths!

Last Monday night I ran the trap once more, and a really breezy warm night yielded some welcome wandering species.
Quite often when it is warm, species will disperse from their strongholds in certain areas in the UK and move about with the humid air.
It certainly blurs the lines to what is actually defined as a genuine migrant moth, quite often even common species will migrate and bolster our populations, but species like Aroga velocella, Evergestis extimalis (both which featured in this catch and rare in the county) and of course the exploding Scrobipalpa ocellatella are really only our current population tracking north on southerly winds.
 
Obviously from August this gets trickier to define the parameters for a genuine migrant moth as we head into the peak migrantion period.
 
5 new species for the year was very good for the time of year, things started tailing off from now on but the common species are still doing really well. 
 

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 615 species

18/08/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Delicate 1 [NFY]
L-album Wainscot 1 [NFY]

Micro Moths

Aroga velocella 1 [NFY]
Evergestis extimalis 1 [NFY]
Lathronympha strigana 1 [NFY]

White-line Dart

Aroga velocella

Delicate

Dioryctria abietella

Evergestis extimalis

L-album wainscot

Lathronympha strigana

Small Ranunculus

 

Posted by Bennyboymothman at 20:11