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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.
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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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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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Tuesday 22 April 2014

That's the way mothing goes...

I will stay brief (well as brief as the catch was last night) with just 3 moths last night to my trap in not exactly unfavorably cloudy conditions, albeit a little wet at times.

I did manage to get the Elachista photographed and identified, it being an Elachista apicipunctella, a new one for the garden.
Thanks to Bill for correct identification.


Macro Moths

1x Common Quaker
1x Hebrew Character

Micro Moths 

1x Epiphyas postvittana

Elachista apicipunctella

 

3 comments:

  1. Ben, I've always understood E. atricomella to have a dark head. Yours appears to have a completely white head which, when combined with that prominent sub-apical spot, should make this E. apicipuntella.

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  2. Yes you are indeed correct, thanks for the help :)

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  3. No worries Ben. It seems to be either quite a local (or under-recorded) species in the south. A colony I found in Surrey last year constituted only the 3rd record for the county. You might want to check that this isn't a notable record for your area, as I notice the species was only found new to Hertfordshire in 2002 (http://www.wheathampstead.net/mh/rare.htm).

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