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.


Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Species List for 15/7/2014

A gentle breeze and a min temp of 15.8 deg C produced another reasonable catch, though the number of moths in my Actinic trap, which is in quite an exposed position, was again very low. In total there were 354 moths, 66 micros of 24 species and  288 macros of 58 species.There were four new species for the year.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
648 Endrosis sarcitrella White-shouldered House Moth 1
787 Bryotropha terrella   1
870 Oegoconia quadripuncta   1 NFY
873 Blastobasis adustella   4
874 Blastobasis lacticolella   4
994 Clepsis consimilana   1
1001 Lozotaeniodes formosanus   1
1036 Acleris forsskaleana   1 NFY
1063 Celypha striana   13
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 14
1302 Crambus perlella   5
1304 Agriphila straminella   3
1334 Scoparia ambigualis   4
1344 Eudonia mercurella   1
1356a Evergestis limbata   1
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 3
1378 Phlyctaenia coronata   3
1424 Endotricha flammealis   1
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 2
1470 Euzophera pinguis   1 NFY
1483 Phycitodes binaevella   1
1647 Watsonalla cultraria Barred Hook-tip 1
1651 Cilix glaucata Chinese Character 1
1669 Hemithea aestivaria Common Emerald 2
1673 Hemistola chrysoprasaria Small Emerald 1
1690 Scopula imitaria Small Blood-vein 2
1699 Idaea rusticata atrosignaria Least Carpet 3
1702 Idaea biselata Small Fan-footed Wave 1
1708 Idaea dimidiata Single-dotted Wave 2
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 12
1742 Camptogramma bilineata Yellow Shell 1
1830 Eupithecia absinthiata Wormwood Pug 2
1876 Hydrelia flammeolaria Small Yellow Wave 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1
1917 Selenia dentaria Early Thorn 1
1922 Ourapteryx sambucaria Swallow-tailed Moth 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 7
1947 Ectropis bistortata Engrailed 1
1981 Laothoe populi Poplar Hawk-moth 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 1
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 1
2030 Euproctis similis Yellow-tail 2
2044 Eilema griseola Dingy Footman 1
2049 Eilema depressa Buff Footman 2
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 27
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 8
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 1
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 1
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 25
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 1
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 3
2098 Axylia putris Flame 4
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 2
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 17
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 9
2110 Noctua fimbriata Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1
2110a Noctua janthina Langmaid's Yellow Underwing 2
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 6
2112 Noctua interjecta Least Yellow Underwing 2
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 5
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 6
2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 2
2155 Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth 13
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 10
2193 Mythimna ferrago Clay 6
2198 Mythimna impura Smoky Wainscot 12
2279 Acronicta aceris Sycamore 1
2284x Acronicta tridens/psi Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger 3
2291 Craniophora ligustri Coronet 3
2295 Cryphia muralis Marbled Green 1 NFY
2299 Amphipyra tragopoginis Mouse Moth 1
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 12
2322 Apamea lithoxylaea Light Arches 2
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 2
2343 Mesapamea secalis Common Rustic 19
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 11
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 11
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 3
2399 Pyrrhia umbra Bordered Sallow 1
2450 Abrostola tripartita Spectacle 1
2489 Zanclognatha tarsipennalis Fan-foot 5
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