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

Saturday, 4 October 2025

The last post of September

Still some rather good moths turning up in my garden trap, despite some challenging conditions, although at the end of September the days were still warm and in the high teens here.

Monday night yielded a year first Pink-barred Sallow, a scarce visitor here, this only being my 3rd garden record, 1 a year in 3 separate years, and what a stunner it was.

Deep-brown Dart are having a fantastic year here (Although technically all of them here in the UK are lueneburgensis and not lutulenta, the latter appears further south within mainland Europe). 

Other highlights included yet more Sallows, a really good year for this species.

A super pale Beaded Chestnut was good to record as well as another Cypress Pug.

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 648 species

29/09/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap
 
Macro Moths 
 
Pink-barred Sallow 1 [NFY] 
 
Typical Autumn Catch Here

Beaded Chestnut

Cypress Pug

Northern Deep-brown Dart

Pink-barred Sallow

Sallow f.flavescens

 
 
 
Posted by Bennyboymothman at 15:21