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.


Thursday 22 August 2013

Species List for 21/8/2013

The first running of my two traps that had previously used  "Black/Blue" lamps but now with 160W Mercury Tungsten Blended lamps. Unfortunately the threat of rain meant that I didn't run them all through the night, and although a lot of moths seemed to be around them the results were disappointing.

125W MV 38 Micros 200 Macros
25W Actinic 22 Micros 57 Macros
160W MTB A 7 Micros 27 Macros
160W MTB B 5 Micros 31 Macros

 Of course the siting of the traps has a major affect on the numbers, but I was expecting more than there were in the two modified traps.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
15 Hepialus sylvina Orange Swift 3
426 Yponomeuta malinellus Apple Ermine 2
455 Ypsolopha scabrella 1
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 6
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 2
658 Carcina quercana 1
873 Blastobasis adustella 2
966 Cochylis atricapitana 1
972 Pandemis heparana Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 6
1020 Cnephasia stephensiana Grey Tortrix 1
1048 Acleris variegana Garden Rose Tortrix 2
1063 Celypha striana 2
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 2
1302 Crambus perlella 1
1304 Agriphila straminella 3
1305 Agriphila tristella 13
1309 Agriphila geniculea 6
1344 Eudonia mercurella 2
1356 Evergestis forficalis Garden Pebble 2
1361 Pyrausta aurata 1
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 1
1395 Udea ferrugalis Rusty-dot Pearl 1
1398 Nomophila noctuella Rush Veneer 1
1405 Pleuroptya ruralis Mother of Pearl 1
1413 Hypsopygia costalis Gold Triangle 1
1438 Trachycera suavella 1
1439 Trachycera advenella 6
1444 Pempelia obductella 1
1470 Euzophera pinguis 1
1483 Phycitodes binaevella 1
1501 Platyptilia gonodactyla 1
1651 Cilix glaucata Chinese Character 2
1689 Scopula marginepunctata Mullein Wave 1
1690 Scopula imitaria Small Blood-vein 2
1699 Idaea rusticata atrosignaria Least Carpet 4
1702 Idaea biselata Small Fan-footed Wave 4
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 2
1724 Xanthorhoe spadicearia Red Twin-spot Carpet 4
1759 Ecliptopera silaceata Small Phoenix 1
1782 Horisme tersata Fern 1
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1830 Eupithecia absinthiata Wormwood Pug 1
1835 Eupithecia tripunctaria White-spotted Pug 2
1855 Eupithecia phoeniceata Cypress Pug 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 6
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 4
1947 Ectropis bistortata Engrailed 1
2000 Notodonta dromedarius Iron Prominent 1
2044 Eilema griseola Dingy Footman 5
2047 Eilema complana Scarce Footman 4
2049 Eilema depressa Buff Footman 1
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 4
2067 Euplagia quadripunctaria Jersey Tiger 1
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 2
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 11
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 4
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 3
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 1
2110a Noctua janthina Langmaid's Yellow Underwing 1
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 80
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 2
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 4
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1
2289 Acronicta rumicis Knot Grass 3
2291 Craniophora ligustri Coronet 1
2297 Amphipyra pyramidea Copper Underwing 1
2299 Amphipyra tragopoginis Mouse Moth 2
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 3
2343 Mesapamea secalis Common Rustic 39
2352 Eremobia ochroleuca Dusky Sallow 3
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 53
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 1
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 41
2474 Rivula sericealis Straw Dot 1
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 1

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