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 27 May 2018

The Pine Gardens - St Margaret's Bay a first Mothing Session 25/5/2018

Following up a contact from the gardens to the Kent Moth Group, Nigel Jarman and I had our first mothing session at the Garden on Friday 25th. We ran four MV traps until midnight, and also did a bit of netting in the gardens just before dark. We didn't record numbers but just the presence of species. The list isn't huge, but it is still May. There are a couple of micros to be identified and I will add these later. The plume, Adaina microdactyla, was new to me.
Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift present
216 Nemapogon cloacella Cork Moth present
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth present
672 Depressaria heraclei Parsnip Moth present
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth present
1174 Epiblema cynosbatella present
1333 Scoparia pyralella present
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth present
1517 Adaina microdactyla present
1524 Emmelina monodactyla present
1682 Timandra comae Blood-vein present
1724 Xanthorhoe spadicearia Red Twin-spot Carpet present
1738 Epirrhoe alternata Common Carpet present
1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet present
1784 Melanthia procellata Pretty Chalk Carpet present
1823 Eupithecia venosata Netted Pug present
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug present
1835 Eupithecia tripunctaria White-spotted Pug present
1858 Chloroclystis v-ata V-Pug present
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug present
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle present
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth present
1936 Menophra abruptaria Waved Umber present
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty present
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth present
2028 Calliteara pudibunda Pale Tussock present
2043 Eilema sororcula Orange Footman present
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine present
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine present
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart present
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart present
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder present
2187 Orthosia cerasi Common Quaker present
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades present
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines present
2403 Heliothis peltigera Bordered Straw present
2418 Earias clorana Cream-bordered Green Pea present
2474 Rivula sericealis Straw Dot present


 A few of the moths from the Pine Gardens
  

 Small Elephant Hawk-moth


 Common Quaker, this seemed rather late

  Cream-bordered Green Pea


 Willow Beauty

 Bordered Sallow



 Blood Vein
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