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

Thursday, 4 September 2025

A better night indeed despite the breeze

A warm and breezy night here in my garden on the 25th of August, yielded a good catch of 44 species of moths.
There were a few good highlights that are listed below.
 
A late and worn Etainia decentella was good to get, I could barely see it against the white house wall.
 
Both Mottled Rustic and Small Square-spot livened the variety up a bit, from what had been mainly Vine's Rustic & Flounced Rustics!
 
A stunning and extremely fresh Palpita vitrealis was my 5th this year, after my first and only record previously on the 6th of September last year.
 
And both Phyllonorycter geniculella & Ypsolopha horridella were new for the year, the former absent last year and the latter missing for 3 years.
 
A super night so late on in the year. 
 

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 625 species

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

Micro Moths

Etainia decentella 1 [NFY] 
Phyllonorycter geniculella 1 [NFY]
Ypsolopha horridella 1 [NFY]
 
Zeiraphera isertana

Bucculatrix bechsteinella

Mottled Rustic

Palpita vitrealis

Phyllonorycter geniculella

Small Square-spot

Ypsolopha horridella

 
Posted by Bennyboymothman at 21:42