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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.

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Contact Email : bensale@rocketmail.com

My Latest Notables and Rarities

Thursday, 24 April 2025

A Prominent feature

The first Prominents graced the trap on Monday night (Although technically, Chocolate-tip is of the same family, it just doesn't sport the same British vernacular). The family Notodontidae also includes the Lunar Marbled Brown of which i've had two so far this year.

I digress... back to the catch, and there were only 3 new species, both Swallow & Pebble Prominent and a Nemapogon granella netted at dusk.

During the day I missed a few day flying moths, but could see what they were in flight, with their bright yellow hindwings, Esperia sulphurella. I finally managed to net one for a quick snap, a pretty little day-flying species that occasionally come to light.

I've retained a couple of the really white Nemapogon, incase of variatella, but they always come back as granella, so far...

The rest of the catch was quiet, with a few Carpets and spring species. 

Nearly at the 100 species for the year mark!

A quick early glimpse of next week, talks of temperatures rising during the day and night.

Moth garden list for 2025 stands at 98 species

21/04/25 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic TrapMacro Moths

Pebble Prominent 1 [NFY]
Swallow Prominent 1 [NFY]
Brindled Pug 1
Common Quaker 3
Double-striped Pug 2
Garden Carpet 4
Red-green Carpet 2
Nut-tree Tussock 2
Oak-tree Pug 1
Shuttle-shaped Dart 2
Spectacle 1

Micro Moths

Esperia sulphurella 1 [NFY] (netted)
Nemapogon granella 1 [NFY] (netted)
Cameraria ohridella 2 (netted)
Elachista rufocinerea 1 (netted)
 
Swallow Prominent

Clouded Drab

Esperia sulphurella

Nemapogon granella

Pebble Prominent

 
Posted by Bennyboymothman at 20:03

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