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.


Saturday 12 May 2018

Species List for 11/05/2018

An improvement, albeit not huge numbers.but nine NFY including the first Hawk-moth of the year.
Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
714 Agonopterix yeatiana 2 NFY
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 2
1288 Alucita hexadactyla Twenty-plume Moth 1
1356 Evergestis forficalis Garden Pebble 1 NFY
1651 Cilix glaucata Chinese Character 1
1724 Xanthorhoe spadicearia Red Twin-spot Carpet 1
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 4
1981 Laothoe populi Poplar Hawk-moth 1 NFY
2078 Nola confusalis Least Black Arches 1 NFY
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 1 NFY
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 6
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 1 NFY
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 1
2186 Orthosia gracilis Powdered Quaker 1
2187 Orthosia cerasi Common Quaker 3
2289 Acronicta rumicis Knot Grass 1 NFY
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 2
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 2 NFY
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1 NFY

 Silver Y

 Knot Grass

 Heart and Dart

 Shuttle-shaped Dart

  Shuttle-shaped Dart, a slightly odd one!

 TrebleLines,  a speckled example

Treble Lines

 Bright-line Brown-eye

 Poplar Hawk-moth

 Garden Pebble

 Garden Pebble - Tented resting position

 Least Black Arches



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