Welcome

My Blog's aim is to promote and encourage others to participate in the wonderful hobby that is Moth-trapping.
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 never know what you might find when you open up that trap!
I hope to show what different species inhabit our Country by getting people aware of what is out there.
On this Blog you will find up-to-date records and pictures.
I run a trap regularly in my garden here in Hertfordshire and enjoy doing field trips to various localities within Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.

Please also check out the links in the sidebar to the right for other people's Blogs and informative Websites.

Thanks for looking & 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

Herts Recent Notables and Rarities Reported

Tuesday, 2 July 2019

The calm before the storm...

Describes the catch I had on Friday night, with warmer nights inbound things were clearly going to go mad again (I hoped, and all will be revealed in my next post).

Two new species of Hawk-moth for the year were nice to see, including two Small Elephants, never common here and usually seen singley each year.


Garden species count for 2019 now upto 240.






















Catch Report - Back Garden - Stevenage - 125w MV Robinson Trap

28/06/19

Macro Moths

Privet Hawk-moth 1 [NFY]
Small Elephant Hawk-moth 2 [NFY]

Micro Moths

Hypsopygia glaucinalis 1 [NFY]
Phycita roborella 1 [NFY]

Small Elephant Hawk-moth

Hypsopygia glaucinalis


Posted by Bennyboymothman at 19:57

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