Welcome

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

Thursday 10 October 2024

Weeks mothing round-up

This week hasn't been too bad at all in my garden, with warmer nights and extremely mild days (19c at the top end is silly for October).

I ran my trap on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday here, but won't run it for the next couple of nights as its set to drop to low single figures.

The best night of the week was Monday night with 35 species jotted down, probably an October species record for here (without checking for sure).

Just the 2 new species for the year, with a superb glinting Green-brindled Crescent and a rather plainer (but scarcer) Brick, in fact it's a new species for the garden!

Last night, the only moth of note was a mint Satellite, the first of the season.
 
Common migrants are still in great supply, with regular Scarce Bordered Straw, Palpita vitrealis, Clancy's Rustic, L-album Wainscot & Delicate. The latter 3 species are probably resident here now.
 
Wrap up, it's getting cold now until Sunday night at the earliest.

Moth garden list for 2024 stands at 616 species

07/10/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Macro Moths 

Green-brindled Crescent 1 [NFY]
Angle Shades 1
Beaded Chestnut 1
Black Rustic 2
Blair's Shoulder-knot 1
Brimstone Moth 1
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 2
Burnished Brass 1
Clancy's Rustic 3
Dark Spectacle 2
Delicate 1
Grey-pine Carpet 1
L-album Wainscot 3
Large Yellow Underwing 10
Lesser Yellow Underwing 3
Light Emerald 1
Lunar Underwing 2
Pale Mottled Willow 1
Pink-barred Sallow 1
Setaceous Hebrew Character 4
Silver Y 1
Vine's Rustic 1
Willow Beauty 4

Micro Moths 

Acleris rhombana 1
Acleris sparsana 1
Aproaerema anthyllidella 1
Carcina quercana 1
Emmelina monodactyla 2
Eudonia angustea 1
Musotima nitidalis 3
Nomophila noctuella 2
Palpita vitrealis 1
Plutella xylostella 1
Scrobipalpa ocellatella 1
Udea ferrugalis 1

08/10/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Brick 1 [NFG]

09/10/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap

Satellite 1 [Season First]

Palpita vitrealis

Carcina quercana

Green-brindled Crescent

Musotima nitidalis


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