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, 7 September 2013

Species List of 6/9/2013

A cooler day and evening brought a drop in moth numbers, although there were still a large number of Setaceous Hebrew Characters (55% of moths caught!). Just 20 micro moths of eight species and 642 macro moths of 31 species. Even so a Brown-spot Pinion was a new species for the garden.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
658 Carcina quercana 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 4
1048 Acleris variegana Garden Rose Tortrix 2
1309 Agriphila geniculea 5
1342 Eudonia angustea 2
1365 Pyrausta despicata 1
1398 Nomophila noctuella Rush Veneer 3
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 2
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1
1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 1
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 5
1961 Campaea margaritata Light Emerald 1
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 8
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 1
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 5
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 14
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 6
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 63
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 16
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 13
2123 Diarsia rubi Small Square-spot 3
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 369
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 26
2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 3
2178 Tholera decimalis Feathered Gothic 2
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 6
2266 Agrochola litura Brown-spot Pinion 1 NFS
2269 Atethmia centrago Centre-barred Sallow 1
2298 Amphipyra berbera Svensson's Copper Underwing 1
2299 Amphipyra tragopoginis Mouse Moth 2
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 8
2342 Mesoligia literosa Rosy Minor 1
2343 Mesapamea secalis Common Rustic 2
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 43
2361 Hydraecia micacea Rosy Rustic 2
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 29
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 7
2450 Abrostola tripartita Spectacle 1
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