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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
Contact Email : bensale@rocketmail.com

My Latest Notables and Rarities

Saturday, 21 February 2009

Catch Report - Friday 20th February










Well it's nice to be having such stable weather at the moment, and nice mild days for the end of February.
Temperatures at night have started to fall away and might be the shape of things to come for the next week.
6-7c at 10pm last night, dropping away to 0.5c this morning! chilly!

Strangely there was no Moths on the sheet from 5.30pm-10pm when it was warmest, and I didn't expect anything come the morning when I read 0.5c on my temperature gauge, but lo and behold, a few still managed to turn up, 5 in fact including my first Tortricodes alternella and a new form of PBB being the black f. monacharia


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Catch Report
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  • 2x Pale Brindled Beauty
  • 1x Pale Brindled Beauty f.monacharia [NFG]
  • 1x Dotted Border
  • 1x Tortricodes alternella [NFG]
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Posted by Bennyboymothman at 11:02

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