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.


Monday, 9 July 2012

Species list for 8/7/2012

A colder night as the wind moved to the Northern sector. 108 moths of  37 species, with culmella still the most numerous. A new micr,o for the site, Agonopterix yeatiana, and Scalloped Oak, new for the year.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 1
714 Agonopterix yeatiana 1 NFS
874 Blastobasis lacticolella 2
994 Clepsis consimilana 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 1
1063 Celypha striana 6
1083 Hedya nubiferana Marbled Orchard Tortrix 1
1201 Eucosma cana 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 18
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 2
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 1
1653 Habrosyne pyritoides Buff Arches 1
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 3
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1
1758 Eulithis pyraliata Barred Straw 1
1890 Macaria alternata Sharp-angled Peacock 1
1921 Crocallis elinguaria Scalloped Oak 1 NFY
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 1
1941 Alcis repandata Mottled Beauty 5
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 3
2000 Notodonta dromedarius Iron Prominent 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 1
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 15
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 12
2098 Axylia putris Flame 5
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 2
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 5
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 1
2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 1
2155 Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth 1
2278 Acronicta megacephala Poplar Grey 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 4
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 1
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 1
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 3
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1
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