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.


Saturday, 6 July 2013

Species List for 5/7/2013

A warmer night,brought 160 moths, just 13 micros of eight species and 147 Macros of 33 species. Three Elephant Hawk-moths and two Small Elephant Hawk-moths were the most spectacular.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 5
1002 Lozotaenia forsterana 1
1020 Cnephasia sp. Cnephasia species 1
1063 Celypha striana 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 2
1338 Dipleurina lacustrata 1
1458 Myelois circumvoluta Thistle Ermine 1
1709 Idaea subsericeata Satin Wave 1
1711 Idaea trigeminata Treble Brown Spot 1
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 2
1819 Eupithecia exiguata Mottled Pug 2
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 8
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 3
1941 Alcis repandata Mottled Beauty 2
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 2
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 3
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 2
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 1
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 6
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 18
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 40
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 4
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 4
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 2
2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 1
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 2
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 2
2216 Cucullia umbratica Shark 1
2278 Acronicta megacephala Poplar Grey 1
2284.x Acronicta tridens/psi Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 10
2337 Oligia strigilis Marbled Minor 6
2337.x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 1
2339 Oligia latruncula Tawny Marbled Minor 1
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 2
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 2
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 7
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 5
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 2
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