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, 26 July 2026

Another new garden moth

Another good catch on Friday night, still around 40 species so not too bad at all. 

Big hitters are currently Turnip Moth, Nutmeg, Common Wainscot and unbelievably Small Mottled Willow, which is still up there with the common moths! If you asked me last year that Small Mottled Willows will become common next year, I would have laughed!

As with mothing, it only really takes one moth to make lighting up worthwhile.

Yponomeuta plumbella was a new species for the garden, a tiny little white moth picked out amongst the 10's of other Yponomeuta species. This is probably the main reason why it stays an uncommon species, as apart from the dark dots on each wing, they aren't that easy to tell apart, especially at night.

The first July record of Square-spot Rustic was also noteworthy.

The rain was coming, but just how much were we going to get? 
 
 
Moth garden list for 2026 stands at 630 species 

24/07/26 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap
 
Macro Moths

Square-spot Rustic 1 [NFY]

Micro Moths 
 
Coleophora hemerobiella 1 [NFY]
Yponomeuta plumbella 1 [NFG] 
 

Yponomeuta plumbella

Coleophora hemerobiella

Galleria mellonella

Square-spot Rustic


Posted by Bennyboymothman at 20:18