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.


Monday, 20 May 2019

Species List for 19/5/2019

Back to what has become normal with 32 moths of 14 species. A special day though, with the first Hawk-moth of the year, a fine Poplar Hawk-moth. In total there were three NFY, including two micro species.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 5
648 Endrosis sarcitrella White-shouldered House Moth 1 NFY
656 Tachystola acroxantha 1 NFY
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 8
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 2
1981 Laothoe populi Poplar Hawk-moth 1 NFY
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 1
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 1
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 3
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 4
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 1
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 2

  Tachystola acroxantha

White-shouldered House Moth

Poplar Hawk-moth
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