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.


Monday, 9 September 2013

Species List for 8/9/2013

It doesn't get a lot duller than this, although a couple of Large Thorns and a Sallow did lift the monotony a little. Only a few micro moths, 22 from six species, and 578 macro moths from 28 species, but 87% of these were from just six species.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 12
1048 Acleris variegana Garden Rose Tortrix 1
1309 Agriphila geniculea 4
1342 Eudonia angustea 1
1398 Nomophila noctuella Rush Veneer 4
1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 1
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1867 Aplocera plagiata Treble-bar 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 7
1911 Ennomos autumnaria Large Thorn 2
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
1961 Campaea margaritata Light Emerald 2
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 5
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 4
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 8
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 4
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 75
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 16
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1
2123 Diarsia rubi Small Square-spot 3
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 325
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 10
2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 2
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 6
2269 Atethmia centrago Centre-barred Sallow 6
2274 Xanthia icteritia Sallow 1
2297 Amphipyra pyramidea Copper Underwing 1
2298 Amphipyra berbera Svensson's Copper Underwing 1
2299 Amphipyra tragopoginis Mouse Moth 3
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 3
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 45
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 43
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 2
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