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, 5 May 2026

New Double Pugs

Well it was almost cold this morning when I woke up to tend my trap at 5am, 6 degrees the thermometer read and it felt cooler than that.

But.. it was definitely worth running the trap, because out of the 18 or so species there were two new species of pug for the year, and one was completely new for the garden! A Narrow-winged Pug which is fairly scarce in Cambs, but more commonly encountered west towards Suffolk.

The other Pug was a rather small male Dwarf Pug. Despite it's name, this isn't the smallest Pug, well nowhere near, sitting about in the middle of the size range. This one though was rather diddy.

A cool north wind tonight, you can count me out.. 

Moth garden list for 2026 stands at 167 species

04/05/26 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap
 
Macro Moths

Dwarf Pug 1 [NFY]
Narrow-winged Pug 1 [NFY]
 
Dwarf Pug

Narrow-winged Pug

 
Posted by Bennyboymothman at 20:09