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 June 2026

The never-ending warmth

Another good catch on Friday night here in the east.

I set the trap up at 9pm, switched on then made tracks to my local nature reserve for some mobile mothing.

Upon returning back home at 2am, I decided to go through my garden trap and shut it down and go to bed, it was already starting to get light in the east at this point! 

Numbers were quite impressive for certain species, but actual species weren't as high as expected given the 19 degrees.
Maybe it is too hot? As there weren't many Noctuids to be found, micros were the main theme, they seem to tolerate these extreme conditions more than the bigger moths I find.
 
Moth of the night was a nice Yarrow Pug, not one of common Pug species here.
 
Still extremely humid overnight even when we have clear skies!
 
There are many weather models now hinting that Tuesday to Thursday here could be between 35 and 38 degrees!!
 
Moth garden list for 2026 stands at 456 species 
 
19/06/26 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap
 
Macro Moths
 
Common White Wave 1 [NFY]
Double Square-spot 1 [NFY]
Yarrow Pug 1 [NFY]


Micro Moths

Acrobasis advenella 1 [NFY]
Dichrorampha alpinana/flavidorsana 1 [NFY]
Gypsonoma sociana 1 [NFY]
Hypsopygia glaucinalis 1 [NFY]
Phycita roborella 1 [NFY]

Acrobasis advenella

Common White Wave

Dichrorampha alpinana flavidorsana

Double Square-spot

Hypsopygia glaucinalis

Phycita roborella

Yarrow Pug



Posted by Bennyboymothman at 21:30