Passenger, caught 23/9/2006 (National moth night).

Mothing at St Margaret's

Most of the Moth lists and Photographs are from my garden (TR359450) in the village of St Margaret's at Cliffe in Kent. It is situated about 1Km from the sea and has farmland with in 100 metres. The garden is well shrubbed and about 1600 sq metres. I normally run a 125 MV lamp and a 15W actinic light over-night and once the season gets going a couple of other traps. At the moment both are 25W black Lamps. previously I used a 160W blended lamp in one of them. All traps are home made. Trapping dates refer to the date the trap was put out.

Trap Update in 2017. A new 125W MV Robinson was added to a 125W MV Skinner, 15W Actinic Skinner, two 80W MV Morris modified Skinners and a 80W MVMorris Box trap.
Traps are now (2020 onwards) 2x 125W Robinsons, 2x 80W Skinner type and 1x 15W Actinic strip light on a Skinner type .

I try and identify all the Macro Moths, with the micros I am not at all systematic, I do more than I used to with the help of the new book, but there are some that do get through.


Monday, 27 July 2009

Species List for 26/7/2009

The great thing about mothing is the unpredictability. A nice surprise today with a Scarce Chocolate-tip.

Scarce Chocolate-tip (Clostera anachoreta)

Code Species Individuals
464 Diamond-back Moth 4
720 Ethmia bipunctella 2
873 Blastobasis lignea 2
1063 Celypha striana 4
1288 Twenty-plume Moth 2
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella 3
1302 Crambus perlella 2
1305 Agriphila tristella 1
1357 Evergestis extimalis 1
1376 Small Magpie 2
1378 Phlyctaenia coronata 1
1398 Rush Veneer 2
1415 Orthopygia glaucinalis 2
1424 Endotricha flammealis 2
1428 Bee Moth 2
1651 Chinese Character 4
1653 Buff Arches 2
1682 Blood-vein 1
1690 Small Blood-vein 1
1702 Small Fan-footed Wave 2
1708 Single-dotted Wave 4
1713 Riband Wave 11
1724 Red Twin-spot Carpet 1
1804 Barred Rivulet 1
1825 Lime-speck Pug 1
1835 White-spotted Pug 7
1887 Clouded Border 1
1921 Scalloped Oak 1
1922 Swallow-tailed Moth 2
1931 Peppered Moth 4
1937 Willow Beauty 3
1941 Mottled Beauty 1
1981 Poplar Hawk-moth 2
2007 Swallow Prominent 1
2018 Scarce Chocolate-tip 1
2029 Brown-tail 1
2030 Yellow-tail 2
2044 Dingy Footman 4
2047 Scarce Footman 2
2050 Common Footman 17
2061 Buff Ermine 3
2064 Ruby Tiger 3
2089 Heart and Dart 2
2091 Dark Sword-grass 1
2092 Shuttle-shaped Dart 16
2098 Flame 1
2102 Flame Shoulder 8
2107 Large Yellow Underwing 26
2109 Lesser Yellow Underwing 27
2110 Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 3
2110a Langmaid's Yellow Underwing 2
2111 Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 13
2112 Least Yellow Underwing 5
2128 Double Square-spot 9
2134 Square-spot Rustic 2
2145 Nutmeg 1
2154 Cabbage Moth 1
2155 Dot Moth 3
2160 Bright-line Brown-eye 2
2193 Clay 2
2198 Smoky Wainscot 2
2278 Poplar Grey 3
2279 Sycamore 1
2284x Dark / Grey Dagger 2
2289 Knot Grass 3
2295 Marbled Green 2
2299 Mouse Moth 2
2306 Angle Shades 1
2318 Dun-bar 4
2321 Dark Arches 25
2322 Light Arches 1
2343 Common Rustic 58
2343a Lesser Common Rustic 2
2352 Dusky Sallow 10
2358 Saltern Ear 1
2381 Uncertain 16
2382 Rustic 12
2441 Silver Y 52

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