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.


Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Species List for 1/7/2013

108 Moths, 14 Micros of eight species and 94 Macros of 29 species. Now we are at the beginning of July it is to be hoped that numbers will pick up. So far the only evidence is in the nimber of Heart and Darts.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 3
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 3
1294 Crambus pascuella 1
1301 Crambus lathoniellus 1
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 2
1342 Eudonia angustea 1
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 2
1711 Idaea trigeminata Treble Brown Spot 1
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 3
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 3
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 1
1980 Smerinthus ocellata Eyed Hawk-moth 1
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 2
2003 Notodonta ziczac Pebble Prominent 1
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 7
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 43
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 2
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 4
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 2
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 1
2278 Acronicta megacephala Poplar Grey 1
2284x Acronicta tridens/psi Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger 1
2302 Rusina ferruginea Brown Rustic 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 3
2334 Apamea sordens Rustic Shoulder-knot 1
2337 Oligia strigilis Marbled Minor 2
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 1
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 2
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 3
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 2
2439 Plusia festucae Gold Spot 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1
2449 Abrostola triplasia Dark Spectacle 1
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