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.


Sunday 6 September 2020

Species List for 04/09/2020

267 moths of 36 species seems to be the normal catch at the moment, but there were three NFY including my second ever Portland Ribbon.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 1
648 Endrosis sarcitrella White-shouldered House Moth 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 12
1305 Agriphila tristella 4
1309 Agriphila geniculea 16
1408 Palpita vitrealis 2
1707 Idaea seriata Small Dusty Wave 1
1714 Idaea degeneraria Portland Ribbon Wave 1 NFY
1742 Camptogramma bilineata Yellow Shell 1
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 2
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 5
1914 Ennomos fuscantaria Dusky Thorn 9
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria  Willow Beauty 5
1961 Campaea margaritata Light Emerald 7
1984 Macroglossum stellatarum Humming-bird Hawk-moth 1
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 58
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 10
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 4   
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 35
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 22
2178 Tholera decimalis Feathered Gothic 1 NFY
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 8
2269 Atethmia centrago Centre-barred Sallow 6
2297 Amphipyra pyramidea Copper Underwing 1
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 1
2343x Mesapamea secalis agg. Common Rustic agg. 1
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 32
2364 Gortyna flavago Frosted Orange 1 NFY
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 11
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 2
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 1
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