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.


Sunday 6 August 2017

Species List for 05/08/2017

After a week away it was disappointing to find that things still hadn't improved and there were few moths around, just 138 of  29 species.
 Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
1 464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
2 873 Blastobasis adustella 12
3 874 Blastobasis lacticolella 2
4 998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 6
5 1302 Crambus perlella 1
6 1304 Agriphila straminella 9
7 1398 Nomophila noctuella Rush Veneer 1
8 1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
9 1804 Perizoma bifaciata Barred Rivulet 1
10 1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
11 1832 Eupithecia assimilata Currant Pug 1
12 1855 Eupithecia phoeniceata Cypress Pug 1
13 1921 Crocallis elinguaria Scalloped Oak 1
14 2007 Pheosia tremula Swallow Prominent 1
15 2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 2
16 2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 1
17 2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 1
18 2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 4
19 2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 2
20 2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 3   
21 2110a Noctua janthina Langmaid's Yellow Underwing 1
22 2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 36
23 2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 21
24 2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 1
25 2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 1
26 2173 Hadena bicruris Lychnis 1
27 2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 3
28 2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 1
29 2343x Mesapamea secalis agg. Common Rustic agg. 21
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