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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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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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Saturday, 29 September 2018

Garden Catch 11/07/18 - Kent comes to Stevenage

A really odd night with not much to sift through and made even weirder by a slightly unexpected garden first Kent Black Arches and a rather early Agonopterix alstromeriana, a moth that usually flies from August and over-winters flying until around April.
Indeed my previous 12 years of records, all follow this consistent pattern, until last night when a fresh individual was potted up from the garden trap, a month early or therabouts.

The third interesting moth was a garden second record of Dark Umber

Garden species count for 2018 now upto 358.

Here are the new for year species.

Catch Report - 11/07/18 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

Kent Black Arches [NFG]
Dark Umber

Micro Moths

Agonopterix alstromeriana

Agonopterix alstromeriana

Dark Umber

Kent Black Arches

Posted by Bennyboymothman at 21:18

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