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 10 July 2014

Species List for 9/7/2014

Although it was a warm night, min. temp. 15.1 deg C. the over riding factor was the wind. There was a NNW wind of around 25 mph (fresh to strong breeze) with gusts up to 40 mph ( just gale force). Consequently there were far fewer moths than of late, just 75 of 28 species.

 Varied Coronet

Yesterday's Lunar Spotted Pinion



Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
977 Archips podana Large Fruit-tree Tortrix 1
1063 Celypha striana
1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 5
1858 Chloroclystis v-ata V-Pug 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 1
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 1
2047 Eilema complana Scarce Footman 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 3
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 1
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 17
2098 Axylia putris Flame 2
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 4
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 1
2110 Noctua fimbriata Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 3
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 3
2155 Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth 3
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 1
2170 Hadena compta Varied Coronet 1
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 7
2322 Apamea lithoxylaea Light Arches 3
2343 Mesapamea secalis Common Rustic 2
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 5
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 3
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 1
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1
2449 Abrostola triplasia Dark Spectacle 1

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