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 30 May 2014

Species List for 29/5/2014

Another reasonable night with a min temp of 12.7 deg C. Six new moths for the year, two micros and four macros in 209 moths of 47 species, 11 micros and 36 macros.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 5
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 3
697 Agonopterix arenella 2
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 27
1011 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 5
1063 Celypha striana 2
1174 Epiblema cynosbatella 1
1301 Crambus lathoniellus 1
1333 Scoparia pyralella 2 NFY
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 2 NFY
1356 Evergestis forficalis Garden Pebble 1
1707 Idaea seriata Small Dusty Wave 1
1709 Idaea subsericeata Satin Wave 1 NFY
1759 Ecliptopera silaceata Small Phoenix 1 NFY
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 8
1769 Thera britannica Spruce Carpet 1
1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 2
1807 Perizoma albulata Grass Rivulet 1
1819 Eupithecia exiguata Mottled Pug 2
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 10
1837 Eupithecia subfuscata Grey Pug 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1
1920 Odontopera bidentata Scalloped Hazel 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 2
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 2
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 2
1961 Campaea margaritata Light Emerald 3
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 1 NFY
2043 Eilema sororcula Orange Footman 2
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 3
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 4
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 46
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 6
2098 Axylia putris Flame 5
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 1
2123 Diarsia rubi Small Square-spot 1 NFY
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 2
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 7
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 1
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 1
2334 Apamea sordens Rustic Shoulder-knot 7
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 5
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 16
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 8
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1
2422 Pseudoips prasinana Green Silver-lines 1
2450 Abrostola tripartita Spectacle 1

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