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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

Wednesday 17 July 2024

Turn it off and shut it down!

On Friday night I ran my trap for a couple of hours before deciding to shut it down.
The rain was so heavy, that moths were doing backstroke on the patio! Not good and not fair on the moths. 
I did however pot a few new ones up amongst a busy old trap. Not surprising as it was warm at 16 degrees.
Clancy's Rustic was the first new for the year species potted up, surely resident now in this area, as the wind was from the north-west.
A rather nice form of Oak Nycteoline was also potted up during the terrible rainstorm, the third one this year and yet another completely different form.

Come the morning, there were still quite a few moths still in the trap, much preferring to stay in the dry I guess, rather than brave the elements! A White-line Dart was the best moth observed, another new Noctuid moth for the year. 

Also, during the daytime, a rather smart Nemapogon species was attracted to the HYL lure. I'm fairly confident it is variatella, which would be new for my garden and British list. But it will need dissecting to separate from cloacella. The white head is quite prominent on it though.

The weekend wasn't great and night time temperatures fell away to 10c with mist and extremely dewy grass.

There are signs of some warmth heading our way this week which is great.
 
Moth garden list for 2024 stands at 461 species
 
12/07/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Clancy's Rustic 1 [NFY]
White-line Dart 1 [NFY]

Micro Moths

Nemapogon sp 1 (To HYL Lure)


Oak Nycteoline

Nemapogon sp to HYL lure

Nemapogon sp to HYL lure

Clancy's Rustic

White-line Dart

Posted by Bennyboymothman at 20:19

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