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, 8 July 2011

Species List for 6/7/2011

I managed to get the traps out, although bending down to set them up, is rather a struggle. It was very windy and hardly worth the effort, although there was some compensation it a Palpita vitrealis and an Oak Eggar, both new for the year.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 1
1288 Alucita hexadactyla Twenty-plume Moth 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 10
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 1
1408 Palpita vitrealis
1 NFY
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 4
1637 Lasiocampa quercus Oak Eggar 1 NFY
1653 Habrosyne pyritoides Buff Arches 1
1669 Hemithea aestivaria Common Emerald 1
1702 Idaea biselata Small Fan-footed Wave 1 NFY
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 1
1921 Crocallis elinguaria Scalloped Oak 2
1941 Alcis repandata Mottled Beauty 2
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 4
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 1
2029 Euproctis chrysorrhoea Brown-tail 2
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 3
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 3
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 7
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 11
2098 Axylia putris Flame 1
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 3
2155 Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth 3
2198 Mythimna impura Smoky Wainscot 1
2278 Acronicta megacephala Poplar Grey 1
2318 Cosmia trapezina Dun-bar 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 8
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 1
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 10
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 3
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 1
2489 Zanclognatha tarsipennalis Fan-foot 1

93 Moths of 33 Species, (26 Macro, 7 Micro).
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