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 29 July 2018

Species List for 28/07/2018

A cool and breezy night, so different, but welcome, to the previous month. There were 440 moths of 82 species. The one surprise was a Water Veneer, a species not previously identified here. Sadly it was a corpse at the bottom of the trap.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
244 Tinea flavescentella 1
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 32
642 Batia unitella 1
873 Blastobasis adustella 33
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 3
1048 Acleris variegana Garden Rose Tortrix 2
1063 Celypha striana 1
1260 Cydia splendana 3
1261 Cydia pomonella Codling Moth 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 2
1302 Crambus perlella 8
1304 Agriphila straminella 13
1331 Acentria ephemerella Water Veneer 1
1344 Eudonia mercurella 6
1356 Evergestis forficalis Garden Pebble 1
1361 Pyrausta aurata 1
1378 Phlyctaenia coronata 1
1424 Endotricha flammealis 6
1438 Trachycera suavella 2
1439 Trachycera advenella 1   
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
1637 Lasiocampa quercus Oak Eggar 1
1648 Drepana falcataria Pebble Hook-tip 1
1669 Hemithea aestivaria Common Emerald 1
1699 Idaea rusticata Least Carpet 2
1702 Idaea biselata Small Fan-footed Wave 2
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 3
1724 Xanthorhoe spadicearia Red Twin-spot Carpet 4
1742 Camptogramma bilineata Yellow Shell 1
1782 Horisme tersata Fern 1
1812 Eupithecia inturbata Maple Pug 2
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 3
1921 Crocallis elinguaria Scalloped Oak 2
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 2
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 2
1947 Ectropis bistortata Engrailed 1
1981 Laothoe populi Poplar Hawk-moth 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 1
2000 Notodonta dromedarius Iron Prominent 2
2007 Pheosia tremula Swallow Prominent 1
2029 Euproctis chrysorrhoea Brown-tail 1
2044 Eilema griseola Dingy Footman 4
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 3
2064 Phragmatobia fuliginosa Ruby Tiger 3
2064 Phragmatobia fuliginosa fuliginosa Ruby Tiger 2
2067 Euplagia quadripunctaria Jersey Tiger 1
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 18
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 1
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 1
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 24
2092 Agrotis puta insula Shuttle-shaped Dart 4
2098 Axylia putris Flame 1
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 5
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 1
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 5
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 12
2112 Noctua interjecta Least Yellow Underwing 3
2145 Discestra trifolii Nutmeg 4
2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 2
2155 Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth 1
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 2
2193 Mythimna ferrago Clay 3
2284x Acronicta tridens/psi Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger 3
2289 Acronicta rumicis Knot Grass 3
2295 Cryphia muralis Marbled Green 1
2297 Amphipyra pyramidea Copper Underwing 1
2299 Amphipyra tragopoginis Mouse Moth 3
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 7
2341 Mesoligia furuncula Cloaked Minor 1
2343 Mesapamea secalis Common Rustic 64
2343a Mesapamea didyma Lesser Common Rustic 1
2352 Eremobia ochroleuca Dusky Sallow 1
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 1
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 20
2381x Hoplodrina alsines/blanda Uncertain/Rustic agg. 3
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 12
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 2
2425 Colocasia coryli Nut-tree Tussock 1
2439 Plusia festucae Gold Spot 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 55
2450 Abrostola tripartita Spectacle 1
2474 Rivula sericealis Straw Dot 5

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