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.


Saturday 4 June 2011

Species List for 3/6/2011

Rannoch Loopers Little variaition in the four specimens caught. Two in my MV trap and two in the Actinic, surprisingly none in the two Black bulb traps. Both of these are good for pugs and other geometers.

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No4

New Macros for the year were Rannoch Looper, Broken-barred Carpet, Tawny Speckled Pug and Straw Dot. New micros, Lozotaenia forsterana and Green Oak Tortrix. The third year I've recorded Rannoch Looper, but the earliest date and four in one night for the first time. The Broken-barred Carpet was only the second record.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 2
1002 Lozotaenia forsterana
1
1033 Tortrix viridana Green Oak Tortrix 2
1063 Celypha striana
1
1334 Scoparia ambigualis
1
1773 Electrophaes corylata Broken-barred Carpet 1
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 1
1838 Eupithecia icterata Tawny Speckled Pug 1
1896 Itame brunneata Rannoch Looper 4
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 1
1961 Campaea margaritata Light Emerald 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 1
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 3
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 3
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 1
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 26
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 3
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 2
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 4
2278 Acronicta megacephala Poplar Grey 1
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 1
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 1
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 3
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 1
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 2
2474 Rivula sericealis Straw Dot 1

75 Moths of 32 Species, (26 Macro, 6 Micro)
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