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 20 July 2009

Species List 19/7/2009

After a night off the previous night I ran the traps last night as it was somewhat calmer. The temperature was quite low, around 12 deg and the catch very low. I ran all four traps with the actinic in the front garden. Very few moths here though, and nothing different. As there were so few moths I counted the micros.

Code name Individuals
937 Agapeta hamana 1
1063 Celypha striana 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella 10
1302 Crambus perlella 2
1702 Small Fan-footed Wave 1
1758 Barred Straw 1
1917 Early Thorn 1
1921 Scalloped Oak 6
1994 Buff-tip 1
2009 Maple Prominent 1
2050 Common Footman 2
2061 Buff Ermine 6
2064 Ruby Tiger 2
2089 Heart and Dart 1
2092 Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
2107 Large Yellow Underwing 2
2111 Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 3
2128 Double Square-spot 1
2154 Cabbage Moth 1
2160 Bright-line Brown-eye 5
2193 Clay 1
2198 Smoky Wainscot 1
2284x Dark / Grey Dagger 1
2321 Dark Arches 13
2322 Light Arches 1
2343 Common Rustic 9
2381 Uncertain 5
2387 Mottled Rustic 3
2441 Silver Y 8

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