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, 25 April 2022

Species List for 24/04/2022

 The cold N wind continues to keep the temperature down and so far I'm not seeing any major  numbers emerging. There were 14 moths of  10 species,with the very "furry" Pale Tussock new for the year.

Code

Taxon

Vernacular

Individuals

1927

Lycia hirtaria

Brindled Beauty

1

2028

Calliteara pudibunda

Pale Tussock

1

NFY

2063

Diaphora mendica

Muslin Moth

4

2089

Agrotis exclamationis

Heart and Dart

1

2092

Agrotis puta

Shuttle-shaped Dart

1

2186

Orthosia gracilis

Powdered Quaker

1

2187

Orthosia cerasi

Common Quaker

1

2190

Orthosia gothica

Hebrew Character

2

2306

Phlogophora meticulosa

Angle Shades

1

2450

Abrostola tripartita

Spectacle

1

 

brindled Beauty



Pale Tussock


Pale Tussock                                                                   



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