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, 20 July 2017

Species List for 19/07/2017

A male Four-spotted Footman and a Tree-lichen Beauty were the top moths of the night. 19 Silver Y's was an encouraging increase. In total there were 353 moths of about 77 species.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
424 Yponomeuta evonymella Bird-cherry Ermine 1
455 Ypsolopha scabrella 2
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 1
873 Blastobasis adustella 16
874 Blastobasis lacticolella 1
977 Archips podana Large Fruit-tree Tortrix 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 3
1048 Acleris variegana Garden Rose Tortrix 1
1063 Celypha striana  2
1261 Cydia pomonella Codling Moth 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 6
1302 Crambus perlella 2
1304 Agriphila straminella  26
1344 Eudonia mercurella 1
1375 Ostrinia nubilalis European Corn Borer 2
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 1
1398 Nomophila noctuella Rush Veneer 1
1405 Pleuroptya ruralis Mother of Pearl 1
1421 Aglossa pinguinalis Large Tabby 1
1424 Endotricha flammealis 5
1438 Trachycera suavella 1
1439 Trachycera advenella  2
1454 Dioryctria abietella 1
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
1640 Euthrix potatoria Drinker 1
1680 Cyclophora punctaria Maiden's Blush 1
1690 Scopula imitaria Small Blood-vein 1
1699 Idaea rusticata atrosignaria Least Carpet 10
1702 Idaea biselata Small Fan-footed Wave 9
1708 Idaea dimidiata Single-dotted Wave 6
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 9
1803 Perizoma alchemillata Small Rivulet 1
1804 Perizoma bifaciata Barred Rivulet 1
1830 Eupithecia absinthiata Wormwood Pug 2
1887 Lomaspilis marginata Clouded Border 1
1917 Selenia dentaria Early Thorn 3
1922 Ourapteryx sambucaria Swallow-tailed Moth 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 4
1947 Ectropis bistortata Engrailed 1
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 1
2029 Euproctis chrysorrhoea Brown-tail 2
2030 Euproctis similis Yellow-tail 1
2044 Eilema griseola Dingy Footman 7
2047 Eilema complana Scarce Footman 2
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 6
2051 Lithosia quadra Four-spotted Footman 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 2
2064 Phragmatobia fuliginosa Ruby Tiger 2
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 1
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 18
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 32
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 9
2110 Noctua fimbriata Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 5
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 14
2112 Noctua interjecta Least Yellow Underwing 1
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 1
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 2
2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 2
2159 Lacanobia suasa Dog's Tooth 2
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 3
2193 Mythimna ferrago Clay 3
2198 Mythimna impura Smoky Wainscot 3
2284x Acronicta tridens/psi Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger 3
2291 Craniophora ligustri Coronet 1
2292 Cryphia algae Tree-lichen Beauty 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 17
2322 Apamea lithoxylaea Light Arches 1
2343x Mesapamea secalis agg. Common Rustic agg. 29
2352 Eremobia ochroleuca Dusky Sallow 3
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 2
2381x Hoplodrina alsines/blanda Uncertain/Rustic agg. 17
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 5
2439 Plusia festucae Gold Spot 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 19
2474 Rivula sericealis Straw Dot 1



Tree-lichen Beauty

Male Four-spotted Footman
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