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.


Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Species List for 20/6/2011

Heeding the dire weather forecast, I only ran two traps (MV and actinic), both in very sheltered situations. Black bulbs, even when well protected, are susceptible to very damp conditions, and expensive to replace, I therefore didn't run them. The heavy rain didn't materialise here, and I did catch a few moths.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 1
1002 Lozotaenia forsterana
1
1063 Celypha striana
3
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 1
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 3
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 6
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 1
2098 Axylia putris Flame 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 7
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 3
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 2
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1

35 Moths of 17 Species, (12 Macro, 5 Micro)
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