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.


Friday, 1 June 2012

Species list for 31/5/2012

52 moths of 23 species including Loxostege sticticalis,a new micro for the site.

 
Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
247 Tinea trinotella
2 NFY
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 5
1333 Scoparia pyralella
1
1342 Eudonia angustea
1
1356 Evergestis forficalis Garden Pebble 1 NFY
1368 Loxostege sticticalis
1 NFS
1651 Cilix glaucata Chinese Character 1
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 2
1827 Eupithecia intricata Freyer's Pug 1 NFY
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 2
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 1
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 4
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 4
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 2
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 1
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 1
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1
2291 Craniophora ligustri Coronet 2
2337 Oligia strigilis Marbled Minor 1
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 15
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1

NFS new for site
NFY new for year
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