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, 4 July 2018

Species List for 03/07/2018

325 moths of 72 species  was a reducion in numbers from previous nights but there were five NFY and one NFS (New for Site), The new moth was a White-mantled Wainscot, which was completely unexpected.  UKmoths descibes it as "A rare and local species, occurring only in a relatively small number of reedbeds in coastal Suffolk, though previously it also occurred in East Sussex." My guess is that the one I caught was a migrant, rather than there being a previously unknown colony in Kent.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 1
424 Yponomeuta evonymella Bird-cherry Ermine 5
0425x Yponomeuta padella/malinellus 1
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 20
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 1
873 Blastobasis adustella 1 NFY
994 Clepsis consimilana 1
1002 Lozotaenia forsterana 1
1010 Ditula angustiorana Red-barred Tortrix 1
1063 Celypha striana 8
1288 Alucita hexadactyla Twenty-plume Moth 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 19
1302 Crambus perlella 3
1325 Platytes alpinella 1 NFY
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 2
1338 Dipleurina lacustrata 1
1356a Evergestis limbata 1
1414 Synaphe punctalis 1 NFY
1415 Orthopygia glaucinalis 1
1417 Pyralis farinalis Meal Moth 1   
1424 Endotricha flammealis 1
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 7
1458 Myelois circumvoluta Thistle Ermine 2
1481 Homoeosoma sinuella 4
1653 Habrosyne pyritoides Buff Arches 1
1699 Idaea rusticata atrosignaria Least Carpet 4
1702 Idaea biselata Small Fan-footed Wave 2
1705 Idaea fuscovenosa Dwarf Cream Wave 1
1708 Idaea dimidiata Single-dotted Wave 2
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 15
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1
1758 Eulithis pyraliata Barred Straw 1
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 2
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 4
1941 Alcis repandata Mottled Beauty 2
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 2
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 11
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 11
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 6
2077 Nola cucullatella Short-cloaked Moth 1
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 1
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 16
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 13
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 1
2098 Axylia putris Flame 10
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 14
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 1
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1 NFY
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 2
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 1
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 1
2155 Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth 3
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 2
2193 Mythimna ferrago Clay 2
2198 Mythimna impura Smoky Wainscot 2
2202 Mythimna l-album L-album Wainscot 1
2284x Acronicta tridens/psi Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger 1
2318 Cosmia trapezina Dun-bar 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 29
2322 Apamea lithoxylaea Light Arches 1
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 3
2372 Archanara neurica White-mantled Wainscot 1 NFS
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 20
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 6
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 1
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 8
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1
2434 Diachrysia chrysitis Burnished Brass 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 26
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 2
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 White-mantled Wainscot

 White-mantled Wainscot

Platytes alpinella
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