Ben Sale

The 12th National Moth Week starts today! As a country co-ordinator for the UK, feel free to contact me for any details or identifications and I will do my best to help. The UK weather isn't looking great for moths this coming week sadly! Good luck all! nationalmothweek.org

The 711th species this week was a Pale November Moth on the 28th. 20 species was good for here, but haven't bothered much lately in very damp cool and foggy conditions. Angle Shades was nice too, a moth I haven't seen here for months. Fordham, East Cambs

The 710th species for the garden was recorded here on Monday night (A Sprawler), with a super 26 species present. A warm but damp night did the business. And that is where it ends.... for now, back to other hobbies. Fordham, East Cambs

My latest ever Acrobasis advenella was also Cambs latest, by over a month here on Thursday night. I still keep calling it by it's old taxon Trachycera! This and a suavella last week are the signs of things to come in forthcoming years.

A quieter night last night here in Fordham, but still 20+ species including 6 regular migrant species. Best was another Scarce Bordered Straw (30+ this year), Lesser Yellow Underwing of the form sagittifer, and Cambs latest Hawthorn Moth.