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.


Sunday 5 August 2012

Species List for 4/8/2012

A fair night with a good example of the scarce migrant Cydia amplana. Total 207 moths of 57 species. I rested the female Oak Eggar on a shrub on our back porch and later was amazed to see a male flying round the area in sunlight about an hour later. He didn't take long to find her and within an hour she had produced a good "clutch" of eggs. Any advice on how to bring these through would be appreciated. I've included a NFS tag on the Cnephasia longana, although I have caught two or three before and had them identified on UKmoths a few days ago.For some reason if I now make changes on an old post on blogger, I loose all the table formatting which is a considerable nuisance. As they weren't included in the daily list then. I've now put that right as I caught one last night.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
428 Yponomeuta rorrella Willow Ermine 3
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 1
873 Blastobasis adustella   14
972 Pandemis heparana Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 3
1016 Cnephasia longana   1 NFS
1048 Acleris variegana Garden Rose Tortrix 1
1063 Celypha striana   5
1260 Cydia splendana   1
1262 Cydia amplana   1 NFY
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 2
1302 Crambus perlella   2
1304 Agriphila straminella   1
1344 Eudonia mercurella   3
1378 Phlyctaenia coronata   12
1398 Nomophila noctuella Rush Veneer 1
1424 Endotricha flammealis   4
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 2
1439 Trachycera advenella   2
1452 Phycita roborella   1  
1637 Lasiocampa quercus Oak Eggar 1
1653 Habrosyne pyritoides Buff Arches 2
1669 Hemithea aestivaria Common Emerald 1
1702 Idaea biselata Small Fan-footed Wave 2
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 10
1804 Perizoma bifaciata Barred Rivulet 1
1858 Chloroclystis v-ata V-Pug 1
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 1
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 1
1921 Crocallis elinguaria Scalloped Oak 1
1922 Ourapteryx sambucaria Swallow-tailed Moth 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 1
2029 Euproctis chrysorrhoea Brown-tail 1
2031 Leucoma salicis White Satin 3
2047 Eilema complana Scarce Footman 1
2049 Eilema depressa Buff Footman 1
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 39
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 2
2064 Phragmatobia fuliginosa Ruby Tiger 1
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 2
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 4
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 4
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 3
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 18
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 1
2145 Discestra trifolii Nutmeg 1
2166 Hadena rivularis Campion 1
2284x Acronicta tridens/psi Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger 1
2318 Cosmia trapezina Dun-bar 3
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 4
2343 Mesapamea secalis Common Rustic 2
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 5
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 1
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 22
2489 Zanclognatha tarsipennalis Fan-foot 1

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