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, 4 October 2026

Species List for 03/10/2026

Two traps, a 125W Robinson in the Back Garden, a 125W MV Robinson in the Greenhouse Garden. The Robinson was moved to the  Greenhouse Garden and was as productive as the Skinner is there, thus showing it is the pond garden that is poor in species at the moment, and not the traps catching ability. There were 245 moths of 36 species with one NFY, a Pink-barred Sallow, only the sixth here and the first for 8 years.

Code

Taxon

Vernacular

Individuals


28.024

Tachystola acroxantha


1


49.039

Epiphyas postvittana

Light Brown Apple Moth

15


49.077

Acleris variegana

Garden Rose Tortrix

1


62.036

Acrobasis suavella


1


63.031

Udea ferrugalis

Rusty-dot Pearl

6


63.048

Palpita vitrealis


8


63.054

Cydalima perspectalis

Box-tree Moth

6


63.069

Eudonia angustea


2


70.024

Scopula imitaria

Small Blood-vein

1


70.038

Rhodometra sacraria

Vestal

1


70.049

Xanthorhoe fluctuata

Garden Carpet

1


70.077

Pennithera firmata

Pine Carpet

2


70.095

Chloroclysta siterata

Red-Green Carpet

2


72.057

Pechipogo plumigeralis

Plumed Fan-foot

1


73.062

Amphipyra pyramidea

Copper Under

1


73.076

Helicoverpa armigera

Scarce Bordered Straw

7


73.087

Spodoptera exigua

Small Mottled Willow

49


73.093

Caradrina kadenii

Clancy's Rustic

6


73.095

Caradrina clavipalpis

Pale Mottled Willow

1


73.113

Phlogophora meticulosa

Angle Shades

2


73.134

Rhizedra lutosa

Large Wainscot

1


73.180

Tiliacea aurago

Barred Sallow

3


73.181

Xanthia togata

Pink-barred Sallow

1

nfy

73.186

Agrochola lychnidis

Beaded Chestnut

10


73.193

Anchoscelis lunosa

Lunar Underwing

19


73.233

Aporophyla nigra

Black Rustic

8


73.235

Polymixis lichenea

Feathered Ranunculus

3


73.295

Mythimna vitellina

Delicate

3


73.297

Mythimna albipuncta

White-point

3


73.319

Agrotis segetum

Turnip Moth

8


73.325

Agrotis puta

Shuttle-shaped Dart

10


73.342

Noctua pronuba

Large Yellow Underwing

50


73.343

Noctua fimbriata

Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

2


73.345

Noctua comes

Lesser Yellow Underwing

3


73.357

Xestia xanthographa

Square-spot Rustic

6


73.359

Xestia c-nigrum

Setaceous Hebrew Character

1


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Pink-barred Sallow

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