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, 15 July 2013

Species List for 12/7/2013

Friday nights catch, and I was hoping for lots of goodies to have in my moth tank for my Wildlife exhibit in the garden tomorrow. The best was the Elephant Hawk-moths. Altogether 109 moths of 30 species including 14 micros of six species.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 2
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 2
1063 Celypha striana 2
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 7
1302 Crambus perlella 1
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 1
1378 Phlyctaenia coronata 1
1653 Habrosyne pyritoides Buff Arches 1
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
1941 Alcis repandata Mottled Beauty 1
1961 Campaea margaritata Light Emerald 2
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 2
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 3
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 22
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 25
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
2098 Axylia putris Flame 1
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 2
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 4
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1
2291 Craniophora ligustri Coronet 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 10
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 2
2339 Oligia latruncula Tawny Marbled Minor 1
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 2
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 1
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 4
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 3
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 2

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