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, 7 July 2010

Species List for 6/7/2010

Not a spectacular night for variety or numbers, but another new species for the site, Shoulder-striped Wainscot and what I thought was a second July Belle, but on closer inspection was a Brown Silver-line! A common woodland moth, but one I've only caught twice before, both in 2005.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
14 Hepialus humuli Ghost Moth 1
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 2
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 3
1524 Emmelina monodactyla
1
1653 Habrosyne pyritoides Buff Arches 2
1707 Idaea seriata Small Dusty Wave 1
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 1
1758 Eulithis pyraliata Barred Straw 5
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 1
1902 Petrophora chlorosata Brown Silver-line 1
1921 Crocallis elinguaria Scalloped Oak 1
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
1941 Alcis repandata Mottled Beauty 5
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 1
1961 Campaea margaritata Light Emerald 1
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 2
1981 Laothoe populi Poplar Hawk-moth 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 7
2029 Euproctis chrysorrhoea Brown-tail 1
2047 Eilema complana Scarce Footman 1
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 4
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 2
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 2
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 48
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 41
2098 Axylia putris Flame 4
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 9
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 4
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 2
2145 Discestra trifolii Nutmeg 1
2198 Mythimna impura Smoky Wainscot 1
2202 Mythimna l-album L-album Wainscot 1
2205 Mythimna comma Shoulder-striped Wainscot 1
2278 Acronicta megacephala Poplar Grey 1
2280 Acronicta leporina Miller 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 45
2322 Apamea lithoxylaea Light Arches 2
2334 Apamea sordens Rustic Shoulder-knot 1
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 2
2343 Mesapamea secalis Common Rustic 1
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 1
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 21
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 21
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 3
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 7
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1
2450 Abrostola tripartita Spectacle 1
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