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.


Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Species List for 18/6/2013

The best night so far this year with 140 moths of  47 species, seven of which were micros.Barred Umber (see above) and Ash (Angle-barred) Pug were new for the site.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 1
672 Depressaria heraclei Parsnip Moth 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 5
1033 Tortrix viridana Green Oak Tortrix 2
1174 Epiblema cynosbatella 1
1301 Crambus lathoniellus 2
1336 Eudonia pallida 1
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 1
1654 Tethea ocularis Figure of Eighty 1
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1
1738 Epirrhoe alternata Common Carpet 2
1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 7
1819 Eupithecia exiguata Mottled Pug 3
1827 Eupithecia intricata Freyer's Pug 1
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 3
1835 Eupithecia tripunctaria White-spotted Pug 2
1848 Eupithecia innotata f. fraxinata Ash Pug 1 NFS
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 4
1888 Ligdia adustata Scorched Carpet 1
1901 Cepphis advenaria Little Thorn 1 NFS
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 15
1920 Odontopera bidentata Scalloped Hazel 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 5
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 2
1961 Campaea margaritata Light Emerald 1
1979 Mimas tiliae Lime Hawk-moth 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 2
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 3
2043 Eilema sororcula Orange Footman 3
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 2
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 15
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 18
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 2
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 3
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 1
2167 Hadena perplexa Tawny Shears 1
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 3
2279 Acronicta aceris Sycamore 1
2284x Acronicta tridens/psi Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger 1
2289 Acronicta rumicis Knot Grass 1
2291 Craniophora ligustri Coronet 1
2334 Apamea sordens Rustic Shoulder-knot 2
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 6
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 3
2450 Abrostola tripartita Spectacle 3
2474 Rivula sericealis Straw Dot 2
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