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 25 August 2018

Species List for 21/08/2018

Another night with a lot of a few species of moths. In total there were 533 moths of 53 species.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
15 Hepialus sylvina Orange Swift 3
428 Yponomeuta rorrella Willow Ermine 2
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 3
873 Blastobasis adustella 1
988 Aphelia viburnana Bilberry Tortrix 6
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 10
1048 Acleris variegana Garden Rose Tortrix 2
1260 Cydia splendana 2
1261 Cydia pomonella Codling Moth 1
1304 Agriphila straminella 2
1305 Agriphila tristella 19
1309 Agriphila geniculea 2
1316 Catoptria falsella 1
1344 Eudonia mercurella 1
1361 Pyrausta aurata 1
1439 Trachycera advenella 1
1497 Amblyptilia acanthadactyla 1
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 3
1682 Timandra comae Blood-vein 1   
1689 Scopula marginepunctata Mullein Wave 1
1690 Scopula imitaria Small Blood-vein 1
1707 Idaea seriata Small Dusty Wave 1
1724 Xanthorhoe spadicearia Red Twin-spot Carpet 1
1742 Camptogramma bilineata Yellow Shell 1
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 2
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 7
1914 Ennomos fuscantaria Dusky Thorn 2
1921 Crocallis elinguaria Scalloped Oak 1
2067 Euplagia quadripunctaria Jersey Tiger 2
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 25
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 10
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 4
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 9
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 14
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 72
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 97
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 9
2145 Discestra trifolii Nutmeg 1
2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 4
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 5
2198 Mythimna impura Smoky Wainscot 2
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 35
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 4
2343 Mesapamea secalis Common Rustic 5
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 20
2361 Hydraecia micacea Rosy Rustic 1
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 124
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 2
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 4
2450 Abrostola tripartita Spectacle 2
2474 Rivula sericealis Straw Dot 1

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