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.


Tuesday 12 July 2016

Species List for 11/7/2016



164 moths of around 43 species. A couple of cnephasia Tortrix which cannot be Id'd without dissection, so they will remain a mystery.

14 Hepialus humuli Ghost Moth 1
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
714 Agonopterix yeatiana 1
977 Archips podana Large Fruit-tree Tortrix 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 5
1010 Ditula angustiorana Red-barred Tortrix 1
1011 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 2
1020x Cnephasia sp. Cnephasia species 2
1063 Celypha striana   6
1083 Hedya nubiferana Marbled Orchard Tortrix 2
1216 Enarmonia formosana Cherry Bark Moth 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 32
1302 Crambus perlella 1
1304 Agriphila straminella 1
1338 Dipleurina lacustrata 3
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 1
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 1
1438 Trachycera suavella 1
1653 Habrosyne pyritoides Buff Arches 2
1690 Scopula imitaria Small Blood-vein 1  
1702 Idaea biselata Small Fan-footed Wave 1
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 2
1758 Eulithis pyraliata Barred Straw 4
1941 Alcis repandata Mottled Beauty 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 1
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 3
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 5
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 11
2098 Axylia putris Flame 11
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 27
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 2
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 3
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 1
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 2
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 6
2322 Apamea lithoxylaea Light Arches 1
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 3
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 7
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 3
2450 Abrostola tripartita Spectacle 1

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