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 June 2012

Species list for 1/6/2012

Toadflax Brocade 

The Fern

Another reasonable night, the temperature fell and it was drizzle/missle but a few new moths for the year turned up. 63 moths of 26 species.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 3
714 Agonopterix arenella 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 5
1342 Eudonia angustea 1
1356 Evergestis forficalis Garden Pebble 1
1769 Thera britannica Spruce Carpet 1
1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 3
1782 Horisme tersata Fern 1 NFY
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 2
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1
1920 Odontopera bidentata Scalloped Hazel 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 1
1957 Lomographa bimaculata White-pinion Spotted 1 NFY
1981 Laothoe populi Poplar Hawk-moth 1
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 1
1997 Furcula furcula Sallow Kitten 1 NFY
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 3
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 5
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 4
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 1
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 1
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. possibly Rufous Minor 1
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 15
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 4
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 3
2450 Abrostola tripartita Spectacle 1 NFY
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