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 3 August 2009

Species list for 02/8/2009

A quiet night, best moth was the Lunar Thorn.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
720 Ethmia bipunctella
1
873 Blastobasis lignea
1
874 Blastobasis decolorella
1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 1
1063 Celypha striana
1
1288 Alucita hexadactyla Twenty-plume Moth 1
1302 Crambus perlella
2
1305 Agriphila tristella
1
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 1
1424 Endotricha flammealis
6
1651 Cilix glaucata Chinese Character 1
1699 Idaea rusticata Least Carpet 3
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 9
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1835 Eupithecia tripunctaria White-spotted Pug 2
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 1
1887 Lomaspilis marginata Clouded Border 1
1890 Macaria alternata Sharp-angled Peacock 1
1918 Selenia lunularia Lunar Thorn 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 1
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
2003 Notodonta ziczac Pebble Prominent 1
2007 Pheosia tremula Swallow Prominent 2
2029 Euproctis chrysorrhoea Brown-tail 1
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 3
2064 Phragmatobia fuliginosa Ruby Tiger 1
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 4
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 1
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 10
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 3
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 11
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 3
2110 Noctua fimbriata Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 27
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 6
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 2
2164 Hecatera bicolorata Broad-barred White 1
2278 Acronicta megacephala Poplar Grey 1
2279 Acronicta aceris Sycamore 1
2284x Acronicta tridens/psi Dark / Grey Dagger 1
2291 Craniophora ligustri Coronet 1
2295 Cryphia muralis Marbled Green 1
2299 Amphipyra tragopoginis Mouse Moth 1
2318 Cosmia trapezina Dun-bar 2
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 5
2343 Mesapamea secalis Common Rustic 24
2352 Eremobia ochroleuca Dusky Sallow 1
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 2
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 2
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 2
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1
2425 Colocasia coryli Nut-tree Tussock 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 13
2474 Rivula sericealis Straw Dot 1


Lunar Thorn (Selenia lunularia)

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