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.


Thursday 1 October 2020

Species List for 30/09/2020

 The forecast was for an atrocious night and for once it was correct. I put out just one Robinson in the Pond Garden, where it was quite sheltered and I was pleasantly surprised to find 52 moths of 13 species.

Code

Taxon

Vernacular

Individuals

464

Plutella xylostella

Diamond-back Moth

2

1395

Udea ferrugalis

Rusty-dot Pearl

1

1398

Nomophila noctuella

Rush Veneer

1

1524

Emmelina monodactyla

1

1707

Idaea seriata

Small Dusty Wave

1

1764

Chloroclysta truncata

Common Marbled Carpet

1

2107

Noctua pronuba

Large Yellow Underwing

7

2126

Xestia c-nigrum

Setaceous Hebrew Character

2

2134

Xestia xanthographa

Square-spot Rustic

3

2195

Mythimna vitellina

Delicate

1

2255

Polymixis lichenea

Feathered Ranunculus

5

2267

Agrochola lychnidis

Beaded Chestnut

4

2270

Omphaloscelis lunosa

Lunar Underwing

23
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