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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!

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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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Contact Email : bensale@rocketmail.com

My Latest Notables and Rarities

Thursday, 13 August 2020

Some migrant highlights from last night's field trip

Last night I took my gear to my local woodland, with storms threatening earlier on, by the evening things had settled down and we were in for a warm and muggy session.

I've yet to collate the list but its around 120 species.

Migrant wise, I was expecting something and I was pleased to pot up a single Cydia amplana at the Actinic trap, my 3rd UK record of this species (previous examples in my garden 2014,2019). 

There were also plenty of Silver Y and Plutella xylostella, countless Turnips and also one each of Dark Sword-grass and the first Udea ferrugalis i've seen this year.


Cydia amplana



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