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 20 July 2019

Species List for 19/7/2019

Due to the dreadful forecast I ran only one trap, the Robinson. It probably wasn'tquite as wet as forecast, but it was not nice. Ended up with 145 moths of 40 species. The one migrant was a Delicate.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
14 Hepialus humuli Ghost Moth 1
873 Blastobasis adustella 5
1063 Celypha striana 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 17
1304 Agriphila straminella 1
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 1
1424 Endotricha flammealis 5
1441 Oncocera semirubella 1
1673 Hemistola chrysoprasaria Small Emerald 1
1699 Idaea rusticata Least Carpet 1
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 1
1835 Eupithecia tripunctaria White-spotted Pug 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 4
2029 Euproctis chrysorrhoea Brown-tail 1
2037 Miltochrista miniata Rosy Footman 2
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 11
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 8
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
2098 Axylia putris Flame 4
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 1   
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 1
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 2
2110 Noctua fimbriata Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1
2110a Noctua janthina Langmaid's Yellow Underwing 5
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 3
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 3
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 14
2155 Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth 1
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 4
2193 Mythimna ferrago Clay 2
2195 Mythimna vitellina Delicate 1
2198 Mythimna impura Smoky Wainscot 1
2279 Acronicta aceris Sycamore 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 5
2341 Mesoligia furuncula Cloaked Minor 1
2343 Mesapamea secalis Common Rustic 13
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 1
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 10
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 7
2399 Pyrrhia umbra Bordered Sallow 1
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