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.


Wednesday 25 June 2014

Species List for 23/6/2014

ANother reasonable night with 369 moths of 75 species, 21 of them micros. Two new micros for the site and a further four new species for the year.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
14 Hepialus humuli Ghost Moth 1
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 2
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 11
925 Phtheochroa rugosana 1 NFS
937 Agapeta hamana 1
970 Pandemis cerasana Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix 2
994 Clepsis consimilana 3
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 8
1011 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 11
1063 Celypha striana 4
1082 Hedya pruniana Plum Tortrix 1
1288 Alucita hexadactyla Twenty-plume Moth 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 9
1301 Crambus lathoniellus 1
1333 Scoparia pyralella 1
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 5
1344 Eudonia mercurella 1
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 2
1378 Phlyctaenia coronata 2
1392 Udea olivalis 1
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 3
1469 Euzophera cinerosella 1 NFS
1653 Habrosyne pyritoides Buff Arches 1
1654 Tethea ocularis Figure of Eighty 1
1699 Idaea rusticata atrosignaria Least Carpet 1
1707 Idaea seriata Small Dusty Wave 1
1711 Idaea trigeminata Treble Brown Spot 1
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 2
1758 Eulithis pyraliata Barred Straw 2
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
1765 Cidaria fulvata Barred Yellow 1
1817 Eupithecia pulchellata Foxglove Pug 1
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1827 Eupithecia intricata Freyer's Pug 1
1860 Pasiphila rectangulata Green Pug 3
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 2
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 3
1910 Apeira syringaria Lilac Beauty 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 2
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
1941 Alcis repandata Mottled Beauty 2
1947 Ectropis bistortata Engrailed 1
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 7
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 3
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 1
2009 Ptilodon cucullina Maple Prominent 1
2047 Eilema complana Scarce Footman 1 NFY
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 2
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 7
2069 Tyria jacobaeae Cinnabar 1
2077 Nola cucullatella Short-cloaked Moth 1 NFY
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 74
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 71
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 1 NFY
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 2
2098 Axylia putris Flame 15
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 13
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 12
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 3
2155 Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth 2
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 1
2164 Hecatera bicolorata Broad-barred White 1
2193 Mythimna ferrago Clay 1 NFY
2279 Acronicta aceris Sycamore 1
2284x Acronicta tridens/psi Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger 1
2302 Rusina ferruginea Brown Rustic 1
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 3
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 12
2322 Apamea lithoxylaea Light Arches 3
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 10
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 1
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 3
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 9
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 3

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