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.


Saturday 2 July 2011

Species List for 1/7/2011

A very quick look through, with scant regard for micros, before our village "Garden Safari" started for the first of two days. I always have moths and mothing on show, so it was a good job I'd kept yesterday's catch carefully boxed up in the fridge. Lots of ooh's ad aah's for the Hawk-moths and for the fabulous Buff-tips

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
1378 Phlyctaenia coronata
1
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 2
1669 Hemistola aestivaria Common Emerald 1
1708 Idaea dimidiata Single-dotted Wave 1
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 1
1758 Eulithis pyraliata Barred Straw 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 2
1921 Crocallis elinguaria Scalloped Oak 3
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 1
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 1
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 3
2029 Euproctis chrysorrhoea Brown-tail 2
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 5
2077 Nola cucullatella Short-cloaked Moth 1
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 9
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 11
2098 Axylia putris Flame 4
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 1
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 1
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 4
2155 Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth 2
2318 Cosmia trapezina Dun-bar 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 12
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 8
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 3
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 3
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 8
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 1

96 Moths of 31 Species, (29 Macro, 2 Micro). Not all micros counted

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