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, 21 June 2013

Species List for 20/6/2013

For the first time this year I ran four traps, and all had some moths! The star of the show was a fresh looking Silver Barred, a migrant here with a neat Red-necked Footman also catching the eye.In all 71 moths of 30 species, 13 micros of eight species and 58 macros of 22 species.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 4
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 2
648 Endrosis sarcitrella White-shouldered House Moth 1
697 Agonopterix arenella 1
873 Blastobasis adustella 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 2
1011 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1
1174 Epiblema cynosbatella 1
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 2
1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 1
1827 Eupithecia intricata Freyer's Pug 1
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 1
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1
1920 Odontopera bidentata Scalloped Hazel 2
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 1
2039 Atolmis rubricollis Red-necked Footman 1
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 2
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 1
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 14
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 8
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 5
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 1
2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 1
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1
2334 Apamea sordens Rustic Shoulder-knot 1
2337 Oligia strigilis Marbled Minor 1
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 9
2413 Deltote bankiana Silver Barred 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 2
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