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.


Thursday 19 June 2014

Species List for 18/6/2014

Two new moths for the site was a welcome surprise. A further three species were new for the year. A mild night with a minimum temperature of 13.0 deg C. Altogether there were 350 moths of 67 species, 21 micros and 46 macros.

 Beautiful China-mark (Nymphula stagnata)

Satin Lutestring (Tetheella fluctuosa)


Lime Hawk-moth (Mimas tiliae)



Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 7
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 4
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 1
874 Blastobasis lacticolella 1
970 Pandemis cerasana Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 10
1001 Lozotaeniodes formosanus 1 NFY
1011 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 2
1063 Celypha striana 6
1288 Alucita hexadactyla Twenty-plume Moth 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 11
1302 Crambus perlella 3
1333 Scoparia pyralella 3
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 6
1344 Eudonia mercurella 1
1350 Nymphula stagnata Beautiful China-mark 1 NFS
1375 Ostrinia nubilalis European Corn Borer 1
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 1
1392 Udea olivalis 1
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 2
1481 Homoeosoma sinuella 1 NFY
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
1654 Tethea ocularis Figure of Eighty 1
1656 Tetheella fluctuosa Satin Lutestring 1 NFS
1711 Idaea trigeminata Treble Brown Spot 1
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 2
1738 Epirrhoe alternata Common Carpet 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 2
1817 Eupithecia pulchellata Foxglove Pug 1
1827 Eupithecia intricata Freyer's Pug 3
1860 Pasiphila rectangulata Green Pug 2
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 2
1887 Lomaspilis marginata Clouded Border 3
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 2
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 2
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
1941 Alcis repandata Mottled Beauty 2
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 9
1979 Mimas tiliae Lime Hawk-moth 1 NFY
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 6
1997 Furcula furcula Sallow Kitten 1
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 4
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 39
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 104
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 2
2098 Axylia putris Flame 22
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 4
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 20
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 1
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 1
2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 1
2155 Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth 1
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 1
2170 Hadena compta Varied Coronet 1 NFY
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 2
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 7
2330 Apamea remissa Dusky Brocade 1
2334 Apamea sordens Rustic Shoulder-knot 2
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 12
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 3
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 3
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 5
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1
2474 Rivula sericealis Straw Dot 1
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 1

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