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.


Tuesday 12 June 2012

Species list for 11/6/2012

I didn't run the traps on the night of the 10th due to the awful weather forecast. In fact, while the rest of the country, and county, got a monsoon, we had little rain overnight and it would probably have been worth while. Lat night did bring out a few moths, but nothing very exciting. Clouded Silver turned up very belatedly, but Clouded Border was about on schedule.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 4
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 5
1011 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana
1
1344 Eudonia mercurella
1 NFY
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
1807 Perizoma albulata Grass Rivulet 1 NFY
1887 Lomaspilis marginata Clouded Border 1 NFY
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 1 NFY
2043 Eilema sororcula Orange Footman 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 1
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 1
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 1 NFY
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 19
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 7
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 6
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 1
2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 1
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 3
2334 Apamea sordens Rustic Shoulder-knot 4
2337 Oligia strigilis Marbled Minor 1
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 6
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 3
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 2 NFY
2434 Diachrysia chrysitis Burnished Brass 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1
2450 Abrostola tripartita Spectacle 1
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