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.


Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Species list for 28/7/2009

The first Shaded Broad-bar for the garden, previously an odd ommision and one of my favourite crambid, pinella. Another Garden Tiger, this a new one, making four so far.

Code Species Individuals
14 Ghost Moth 1
424 Bird-cherry Ermine 1
455 Ypsolopha scabrella 1
720 Ethmia bipunctella 1
873 Blastobasis lignea 4
937 Agapeta hamana 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella 1
1302 Crambus perlella 1
1305 Agriphila tristella 1
1313 Catoptria pinella 1
1376 Small Magpie 3
1378 Phlyctaenia coronata 1
1398 Rush Veneer 1
1405 Mother of Pearl 3
1415 Orthopygia glaucinalis 3
1424 Endotricha flammealis 3
1470 Euzophera pinguis 1
1651 Chinese Character 3
1673 Small Emerald 1
1699 Least Carpet 1
1702 Small Fan-footed Wave 3
1708 Single-dotted Wave 1
1713 Riband Wave 18
1724 Red Twin-spot Carpet 1
1732 Shaded Broad-bar 1
1804 Barred Rivulet 1
1825 Lime-speck Pug 2
1835 White-spotted Pug 3
1858 V-Pug 1
1884 Magpie Moth 2
1906 Brimstone Moth 3
1921 Scalloped Oak 1
1922 Swallow-tailed Moth 3
1931 Peppered Moth 2
1941 Mottled Beauty 1
1947 Engrailed 1
2007 Swallow Prominent 1
2029 Brown-tail 2
2030 Yellow-tail 2
2044 Dingy Footman 5
2047 Scarce Footman 1
2050 Common Footman 6
2057 Garden Tiger 1
2061 Buff Ermine 5
2064 Ruby Tiger 6
2087 Turnip Moth 1
2089 Heart and Dart 3
2091 Dark Sword-grass 1
2092 Shuttle-shaped Dart 22
2102 Flame Shoulder 5
2107 Large Yellow Underwing 9
2109 Lesser Yellow Underwing 4
2110a Langmaid's Yellow Underwing 1
2111 Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 7
2112 Least Yellow Underwing 1
2128 Double Square-spot 4
2154 Cabbage Moth 3
2155 Dot Moth 1
2160 Bright-line Brown-eye 4
2193 Clay 1
2198 Smoky Wainscot 3
2278 Poplar Grey 2
2284x Dark / Grey Dagger 4
2289 Knot Grass 1
2295 Marbled Green 3
2299 Mouse Moth 3
2318 Dun-bar 3
2321 Dark Arches 22
2322 Light Arches 1
2343 Common Rustic 47
2352 Dusky Sallow 8
2381 Uncertain 16
2382 Rustic 6
2385 Small Mottled Willow 1
2425 Nut-tree Tussock 1
2441 Silver Y 35
2450 Spectacle 1


Garden Tigers. I've caught Garden Tigers, five times in the last four days. The second one on the 25th is the same moth as the second on the 27th. The others are different individuals. The spots are about as good as fingerprints for individual identification.

25/7/2009

25/7/2009

27/7/2009

27/7/2009

28/7/2009

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