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, 10 June 2019

Species List for 9/6/2019

Wet and cold with a terrible forecast, I decided to run just the Robinson. It did surprisingly well with 103 moths of  28 species and two NFY

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 1
874 Blastobasis lacticolella 1
1063 Celypha striana 1
1076 Celypha lacunana 1
1356 Evergestis forficalis Garden Pebble 1
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 1
1890 Macaria alternata Sharp-angled Peacock 1 NFY
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 2
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 1
2028 Calliteara pudibunda Pale Tussock 1
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 2
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 1
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 60
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
2098 Axylia putris Flame 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 1   
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 3
2157 Lacanobia w-latinum Light Brocade 1
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1
2279 Acronicta aceris Sycamore 1 NFY
2334 Apamea sordens Rustic Shoulder-knot 1
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 12
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 2
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1

 Sycamore

 Sharp-angled Peacock

Sharp-angled Peacock

 Heart and Club

Flame
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