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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 19 October 2024

Another weeks mothing round-up

Still quiet, but some good moths still around, and plenty of migrants (which could also be home grown species now, who knows.

3 new species for the year this week, all on different days. Sprawler on Monday, November Moth on Tuesday & Acleris notana/ferrugana on Friday

Other notables included some late'ish flying species, Clepsis consimiliana, Blastobasis lacticolella, White-point and an odd Noctua retained for dissection (in case of it being tertria) It's a female, so we will see.

Moth garden list for 2024 stands at 619 species

15/10/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Sprawler 1 [NFY]
Angle Shades 1
Black Rustic 1
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 3
Clancy's Rustic 1
Delicate 1
Garden Carpet 1
Green-brindled Crescent 1
L-album Wainscot 4
Large Yellow Underwing 1
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1
Lesser Yellow Underwing 2
Mallow 2
Red-green Carpet 1
Sallow 2 f.flavescens
Scarce Bordered Straw 1
Square-spot Rustic 1
Willow Beauty 1

Micro Moths

Acleris variegana 1
Epiphyas postvittana 2
Palpita vitrealis 1
Phyllonorycter messaniella 1

 

16/10/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

November Moth sp 1 [NFY]
Black Rustic 2
Clancy's Rustic 5
Delicate 1
Green-brindled Crescent 1
L-album Wainscot 1
Large Yellow Underwing 4
Lesser Yellow Underwing 1
Red-green Carpet 1

Micro Moths 

Carcina quercana 1
Clepsis consimiliana 1
Emmelina monodactyla 1
Epiphyas postvittana 4
Scrobipalpa ocellatella 1


18/10/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths

Black Rustic 6
Clancy's Rustic 1
Delicate 2
Green-brindled Crescent 2
Large Yellow Underwing 2
Lesser Yellow Underwing 2
Red-green Carpet 1
White-point 1

Micro Moths 

Acleris notana/ferrugana 1 [NFY]
Blastobasis lacticolella 1
Emmelina monodactyla 1
Epiphyas postvittana 5

Sprawler


Sallow f.flavescens

Noctua sp

November Moth sp

Clepsis consimiliana

Blastobasis lacticolella

White-point

Acleris notana/ferrugana


 

Posted by Bennyboymothman at 16:15

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