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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.
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I run a trap regularly in my garden and also enjoy doing field trips to various localities over several different counties.
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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.

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My Latest Notables and Rarities

Thursday, 18 March 2010

Field Trip - Parndon Wood - Wednesday night

Just returned from a field trip and was amazed once again at howe many Moths were about, this counmt below was as best as I could do, inevitably I missed more as even when I was packing up Moths kept flying from out of the darkness.
Shoulder-stripe was one of the last Moths to appear.

135 Moths of 14 Species counted, trap was out for 5 hours from 6.30pm to 11.30pm.

A mating pair of Dotted Border's (a first for me), Twin-spotted Quaker and Yellow Horned being the highlights.

The light also attracted a huge Great Diving Beetle and a toad lol!

Pictures

Left to right : Common Quaker, Twin-spotted Quaker, Small Quaker








Hebrew Character












Oak Beauty











Shoulder-stripe









Yellow Horned











Dotted Border: Female (Top) Male (Bottom)














Catch Report - Wednesday 17th March 2010 - Parndon Wood - 160w Robinson Trap + 40w Hanging Actinic w/White hanging sheet & ground sheets


Macro Moths

19x Satellite
34x Small Quaker
8x Dotted Border (1 female)
7x Chestnut
12x Small Brindled Beauty
10x Common Quaker
5x Hebrew Character
12x Oak Beauty [NFY]
6x March Moth
8x Yellow Horned (Target species) [NFY]
1x Twin-spotted Quaker [NFY]
1x Shoulder-stripe [NFY]

Micro Moths

1x Acleris notana/ferrugana
11x Tortricodes alternella
Posted by Bennyboymothman at 01:00

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