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 22 June 2016

Species List for 21/6/2016

Two new micros Exaeretia allisella and Eucosma hohenwartiana for the site. Bird's Wing was alos new for the site although I did catch three in 1999 when we lived in Crayford.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 7
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
687 Exaeretia allisella 1 NFS
874 Blastobasis lacticolella 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 31
1011 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 3
1063 Celypha striana 1
1083 Hedya nubiferana Marbled Orchard Tortrix 1
1200 Eucosma hohenwartiana 1 NFS
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 1
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 2
1342 Eudonia angustea 1
1356 Evergestis forficalis Garden Pebble 1
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 1
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 2
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
1769 Thera britannica Spruce Carpet 1
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 6
1941 Alcis repandata Mottled Beauty 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 5  
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 5
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 46
2098 Axylia putris Flame 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 15
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 6
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 1
2301 Dypterygia scabriuscula Bird's Wing 1 NFS
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 2
2327 Apamea epomidion Clouded Brindle 1
2334 Apamea sordens Rustic Shoulder-knot 1
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 5
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 1
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 2

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