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.


Tuesday 2 June 2020

Species List for 01/06/2020

118 moths of 27 species, with Heart and Dart a major contributor. Just one NFY.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 2
994 Clepsis consimilana 1 NFY
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 9
1033 Tortrix viridana Green Oak Tortrix 6
1724 Xanthorhoe spadicearia Red Twin-spot Carpet 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 1
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 1
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 2
2028 Calliteara pudibunda Pale Tussock 2
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 2
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 3
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 3
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 45
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 2
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 1
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 1   
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 3
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 2
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 14
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 8
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 3
2450 Abrostola tripartita Spectacle 1
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Clepsis consimilana
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