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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

Sunday 4 August 2024

A multi-catch, catch-up post

Being on hols it's been a hard to keep up lately and i'm a bit behind. 

I've been lucky to bring a portable actinic trap on holiday with me, and i'm upto 85 species over the first two nights which is very pleasing.

Here are two catches from nearly two weeks ago in my garden.

Variety and numbers continued to tail off even during the warm nights. I guess Autumn won't be far away.

I started to get Gypsy Moths to my lure in my garden two weeks ago, and also to the trap, several at a time. On the 25th I got a rarity for my garden, a smart Epinotia nisella. 

On the 27th a Six-belted Clearwing visited it's own pheremone lure in the garden, this year has been a bit poor for Clearwings, maybe the cold and wet June knackered it a bit.

 
Moth garden list for 2024 stands at 524 species
 
25/07/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Gypsy Moth 1 [NFY]

Micro Moths

Epinotia nisella 1 [NFY]


27/07/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Six-belted Clearwing 1 [NFY]

 

28/07/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Straw Underwing 1 [NFY]

Gypsy Moth

Cedestis subfasciella

Epinotia nisella


Six-belted clearwing

Straw Underwing

Jersey Tiger f.lutescens

Acrolepiopsis assectella

Tawny Wave

 

Posted by Bennyboymothman at 20:32

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