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, 30 June 2014

Species List for 29/6/2014

It was raining hard when the time come to put the traps out, so I decided to wait. I watched the start of the Greece-Costa Rica match and when I woke up it was all over, including the penalties and it had stopped raining. As a token gusture I put out my 125w Skinner at about 12.30 am and hoped that anything decent would drop into this single trap. The results weren't good with just 57 moths of 19 species.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
1063 Celypha striana 5
1302 Crambus perlella 2
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 1
1711 Idaea trigeminata Treble Brown Spot 1
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 2
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 1
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 4
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 21
2098 Axylia putris Flame 2
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 2
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 3
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 2
2327 Apamea epomidion Clouded Brindle 1
2334 Apamea sordens Rustic Shoulder-knot 1
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 1
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 4
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 1
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 2

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