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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.
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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.

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Contact Email : bensale@rocketmail.com

My Latest Notables and Rarities

Saturday, 13 September 2014

Brown-spot Pinion heads up the list


Just a quick update on a few moths around the garden this last week.

Brown-spot Pinion was a nice one to get, but there has really been little else, although I have had quite an influx of Plutella xylostella's recently with 12 on the 07th and 6 on the 09th.

Only other new moth all week was a Ypsolopha sylvella.

All quiet on the Eastern front!

Hopefully next week we will get a little more cloud cover at nights.

Catch Report - 07/09/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Brown-spot Pinion [NFY]
1x Angle Shades
2x Brimstone Moth
5x Common Wainscot
9x Square-spot Rustic
2x Silver-Y
5x Lesser Yellow Underwing 
4x Willow Beauty
1x Cabbage Moth
1x Orange Swift
1x Flame Shoulder
2x Large Yellow Undewing
1x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
2x Double-striped Pug
1x Light Emerald
1x Oak Hook-tip
1x Engrailed
1x Common Marbled Carpet

Micro Moths

1x Agriphila geniculea
1x Epiphyas postvittana
1x Anthophila fabriciana
12x Plutella xylostella
1x Catoptria falsella

Catch Report - 09/09/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

3x Brimstone Moth
2x Common Wainscot
3x Square-spot Rustic
4x Lesser Yellow Underwing
5x Setaceous Hebrew Character
1x Willow Beauty
12x Large Yellow Underwing
1x Double-striped Pug
3x Snout
1x Small Dusty Wave

Micro Moths

1x Ypsolopha sylvella [NFY]
1x Celypha lacunana
1x Blastobasis adustella
1x Archips podana
1x Acleris variegana
6x Plutella xylostella


Brown-spot Pinion












Ypsolopha sylvella










Archips podana

Posted by Bennyboymothman at 14:25

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