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 17 July 2014

Species List for 16/7/2014

The warmest night I've recorded this year with a min temp of 17.2 deg C. The first Garden Tiger of the year was a pleasant reminder of my childhood, when "woolly bears" were a common sight. Altogether there were 478 moths of 94 species, 99 micros of 32 species and 379 macros of 62 species. I ran all five traps and of course the locations are important as far a the catches go. My 125W MV Skinner type trap had 196 moths, the three 80W MV traps had 97, 77 and 76 moths and the 15W Actinic tube 32 moths.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 3
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 4
697 Agonopterix arenella
1
787 Bryotropha terrella
2
873 Blastobasis adustella
4
874 Blastobasis lacticolella
2
937 Agapeta hamana
1
946 Aethes rubigana
1 NFY
977 Archips podana Large Fruit-tree Tortrix 1
994 Clepsis consimilana
1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 2
1001 Lozotaeniodes formosanus
1
1036 Acleris forsskaleana
1
1048 Acleris variegana Garden Rose Tortrix 1
1063 Celypha striana
10
1260 Cydia splendana
2
1288 Alucita hexadactyla Twenty-plume Moth 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 25
1294 Crambus pascuella
2
1302 Crambus perlella
7
1304 Agriphila straminella
1
1334 Scoparia ambigualis
4
1344 Eudonia mercurella
1
1375 Ostrinia nubilalis European Corn Borer 5
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 6
1378 Phlyctaenia coronata
3
1405 Pleuroptya ruralis Mother of Pearl 1
1415 Orthopygia glaucinalis
2
1424 Endotricha flammealis
1
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 1
1439 Trachycera advenella
1
1495 Marasmarcha lunaedactyla
1 NFY
1653 Habrosyne pyritoides Buff Arches 1
1690 Scopula imitaria Small Blood-vein 2
1699 Idaea rusticata atrosignaria Least Carpet 4
1702 Idaea biselata Small Fan-footed Wave 1
1708 Idaea dimidiata Single-dotted Wave 3
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 23
1758 Eulithis pyraliata Barred Straw 2
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 2
1858 Chloroclystis v-ata V-Pug 1
1917 Selenia dentaria Early Thorn 1
1921 Crocallis elinguaria Scalloped Oak 1
1922 Ourapteryx sambucaria Swallow-tailed Moth 3
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 4
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 3
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 1
1981 Laothoe populi Poplar Hawk-moth 2
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 3
2009 Ptilodon cucullina Maple Prominent 2
2030 Euproctis similis Yellow-tail 1
2037 Miltochrista miniata Rosy Footman 1
2047 Eilema complana Scarce Footman 1
2049 Eilema depressa Buff Footman 3
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 49
2051 Lithosia quadra Four-spotted Footman 1
2057 Arctia caja Garden Tiger 2 NFY
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 7
2064 Phragmatobia fuliginosa Ruby Tiger 3
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 1
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 19
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 1
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
2098 Axylia putris Flame 2
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 31
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 16
2110a Noctua janthina Langmaid's Yellow Underwing 1
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 13
2112 Noctua interjecta Least Yellow Underwing 1
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 4
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 8
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 1
2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 1
2155 Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth 19
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 6
2193 Mythimna ferrago Clay 6
2198 Mythimna impura Smoky Wainscot 7
2279 Acronicta aceris Sycamore 2
2284x Acronicta tridens/psi Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger 3
2291 Craniophora ligustri Coronet 3
2295 Cryphia muralis Marbled Green 1
2318 Cosmia trapezina Dun-bar 1
2319 Cosmia pyralina Lunar-spotted Pinion 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 27
2322 Apamea lithoxylaea Light Arches 3
2343 Mesapamea secalis Common Rustic 27
2352 Eremobia ochroleuca Dusky Sallow 2
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 17
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 20
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 3
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1
2434 Diachrysia chrysitis Burnished Brass 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1
2469 Scoliopteryx libatrix Herald 1

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