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

Sunday, 21 September 2025

A result from a pheromone lure

I currently have two pheromone bucket traps deployed in the garden, one each of Ni and Slender Burnished Brass.
They've been idle for a good 3 weeks until the 9th when I could see a Noctuid sitting at the bottom of the SBB lure, imagine my initial excitement! 
Slender Burnished Brass was one of my best garden moths when I previously lived in North Hertfordshire, at the time it was the most northerly record for the UK. 
 
But... this wasn't a SBB, instead it was a year first Lunar Yellow Underwing, a moth I regularly get in two broods every year, but not this year it seemed. 
It is still the only record this year for the garden, last year I had 15 of them between May and September.
 
A Black Rustic made it my 2nd new species for the year, and the best conditioned Clancy's was nice to see.
 
Things started to get very quiet. 

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 639 species

12/09/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap
 
Macro Moths 
 
Black Rustic 1 [NFY]
Lunar Yellow Underwing 1 [NFY] 
 
Lunar Yellow Underwing

Black Rustic

Clancy's Rustic

 
Posted by Bennyboymothman at 14:56