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, 6 September 2017

Species List for 05/09/2017

Number of Setaceous Hebrew Characters continue to fall. The first Centre-barred Sallows arrived last night. Unlike most moths,that have appeared early this year, the two Centre-barred Sallows last night were about a week late. They were pretty warn, so they must have been avoiding me for a few days.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 5
1063 Celypha striana 1
1305 Agriphila tristella 2
1309 Agriphila geniculea 8
1342 Eudonia angustea 1
1362 Pyrausta purpuralis 1
1398 Nomophila noctuella Rush Veneer 1
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
1739 Epirrhoe rivata Wood Carpet 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
1961 Campaea margaritata Light Emerald 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 1
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 70
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 7
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1
2123 Diarsia rubi Small Square-spot 1   
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 98
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 8
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1
2269 Atethmia centrago Centre-barred Sallow 2
2299 Amphipyra tragopoginis Mouse Moth 3
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 15
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 5
2385 Spodoptera exigua Small Mottled Willow 1
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1
2474 Rivula sericealis Straw Dot 1
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 2

 Centre-barred Sallow

 Centre-barred Sallow
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