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, 21 September 2017

Species List for 20/09/2017

A late Ruby Tiger was a surprise. There was a increase from the prvious few nights with 219 moths of 31 species.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 14
1309 Agriphila geniculea 1
1465 Nephopterix angustella 1
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
1690 Scopula imitaria Small Blood-vein 1
1707 Idaea seriata Small Dusty Wave 2
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 2
2064 Phragmatobia fuliginosa Ruby Tiger 1
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 3
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 74
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 25
2110 Noctua fimbriata Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 3
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 40
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 9
2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 1
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1
2202 Mythimna l-album L-album Wainscot 3
2269 Atethmia centrago Centre-barred Sallow 2   
2270 Omphaloscelis lunosa Lunar Underwing 18
2295 Cryphia muralis Marbled Green 1
2298 Amphipyra berbera Svensson's Copper Underwing 1
2299 Amphipyra tragopoginis Mouse Moth 2
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 1
2361 Hydraecia micacea Rosy Rustic 1
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 3
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 2
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1
2449 Abrostola triplasia Dark Spectacle 1
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 2

Ruby Tiger 


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