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.


Friday 9 July 2010

Species List for 8/7/2010

The highest ever total of Brown-tail for a night. A second Limbata for the year (Nigel Jarman is into double figures for the year.)

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 1
1653 Habrosyne pyritoides Buff Arches 2
1699 Idaea rusticata Least Carpet 2
1711 Idaea trigeminata Treble Brown Spot 2
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 11
1738 Epirrhoe alternata Common Carpet 1
1758 Eulithis pyraliata Barred Straw 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
1765 Cidaria fulvata Barred Yellow 1
1767 Thera firmata Pine Carpet 1
1769 Thera britannica Spruce Carpet 1
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 2
1860 Pasiphila rectangulata Green Pug 9
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 1
1876 Hydrelia flammeolaria Small Yellow Wave 2
1922 Ourapteryx sambucaria Swallow-tailed Moth 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 4
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 2
1941 Alcis repandata Mottled Beauty 19
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 11
1961 Campaea margaritata Light Emerald 2
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 2
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 5
2029 Euproctis chrysorrhoea Brown-tail 22
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 5
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 5
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 7
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 23
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 28
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
2098 Axylia putris Flame 5
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 14
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 6
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 13
2155 Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth 3
2166 Hadena rivularis Campion 1
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 3
2284x Acronicta tridens/psi Grey Dagger / Dark Dagger 1
2291 Craniophora ligustri Coronet 2
2295 Cryphia muralis Marbled Green 1
2302 Rusina ferruginea Brown Rustic 2
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 42
2322 Apamea lithoxylaea Light Arches 1
2327 Apamea epomidion Clouded Brindle 1
2330 Apamea remissa Dusky Brocade 1
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 11
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 16
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 26
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 8
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 9
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 3
2450 Abrostola tripartita Spectacle 1
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 2

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