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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 13 July 2024

Another wet and breezy night

Still very changeable, in fact Tuesday night was warm but rain was threatening and the breeze was being rather unkind.
An average catch, and I ran out of time counting the moths, there were around 50 species. 

New for year species have slowed, but i'm still getting several each time I run the trap, and they are mostly micros which is great.
The sole new macro was a Maple Pug.

Micros included the scarce Gelechia Nigra (quite a light mottled one) Pexicopia malvella, Lobesia abscisana and Coleophora paripennella.
 
An Ephestia sp and Ectoedemia sp were retained.

Trapping has been awful recently, some nights I haven't even bothered to light up, others i've run for a few hours then admitted defeat.
 
Moth garden list for 2024 stands at 451 species
 
09/07/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths 

Maple Pug 1 [NFY]

Micro Moths

Cnephasia longana 1 [NFY]
Coleophora paripennella 1 [NFY]
Gelechia nigra 1 [NFY]
Lobesia abscisana 2 [NFY]
Pexicopia malvella 1 [NFY]

Pexicopia malvella

Cnephasia longana

Coleophora paripennella

Dioryctria abietella

Gelechia nigra

Lobesia abscisana

Maple Pug

 

Posted by Bennyboymothman at 19:51

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