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.


Saturday 26 July 2014

Species List for 25/7/2014

Another good mothing night with a minimum temp, of 17.3 deg C. While I was looking at a couple of Diamond-backed moths I realised that one was definitely different and  I identifies it as Plutella porrectella, with the aid of the Field Guide to Micro Moths. It's always good to catch a Dioryctria sylvestrella, such a stunning moth. In total there were 443 moths of 87 species, 98 micros of 30 species. The Pine Hawk-moth was the seventh in the last nine years, I've never caught more than one in a year.



Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
14 Hepialus humuli
Ghost Moth
1
424 Yponomeuta evonymella Bird-cherry Ermine 13
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 13
465 Plutella porrectella 1 NFS
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella
2
787 Bryotropha terrella
1
873 Blastobasis adustella
19
937 Agapeta hamana
6
977 Archips podana Large Fruit-tree Tortrix 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 9
1036 Acleris forsskaleana
1
1048 Acleris variegana Garden Rose Tortrix 2
1063 Celypha striana
3
1260 Cydia splendana
3
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 1
1302 Crambus perlella
2
1304 Agriphila straminella
10
1334 Scoparia ambigualis
3
1344 Eudonia mercurella
4
1357 Evergestis extimalis
1
1361 Pyrausta aurata
3
1375 Ostrinia nubilalis European Corn Borer 1
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 1
1378 Phlyctaenia coronata
1
1415 Orthopygia glaucinalis
3
1424 Endotricha flammealis
1
1425 Galleria mellonella Wax Moth 1
1439 Trachycera advenella
1
1454b Dioryctria sylvestrella
1 NFY
1483 Phycitodes binaevella
1
1501 Platyptilia gonodactyla
1 NFY
1637 Lasiocampa quercus Oak Eggar 1
1651 Cilix glaucata Chinese Character 2
1669 Hemithea aestivaria Common Emerald 1
1699 Idaea rusticata atrosignaria Least Carpet 6
1702 Idaea biselata Small Fan-footed Wave 2
1705 Idaea fuscovenosa Dwarf Cream Wave 1 NFY
1708 Idaea dimidiata Single-dotted Wave 2
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 10
1838 Eupithecia icterata Tawny Speckled Pug 1 NFY
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 3
1921 Crocallis elinguaria Scalloped Oak 2
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 1
1978 Hyloicus pinastri Pine Hawk-moth 1 NFY
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 1
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 1
2007 Pheosia tremula Swallow Prominent 2
2029 Euproctis chrysorrhoea Brown-tail 1
2030 Euproctis similis Yellow-tail 1
2044 Eilema griseola Dingy Footman 6
2047 Eilema complana Scarce Footman 1
2049 Eilema depressa Buff Footman 2
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 11
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 5
2064 Phragmatobia fuliginosa Ruby Tiger 1
2067 Euplagia quadripunctaria Jersey Tiger 1
2081 Euxoa tritici White-line Dart 1
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 4
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 1
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 14
2098 Axylia putris Flame 1
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 8
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 41
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 11
2110 Noctua fimbriata Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 38
2112 Noctua interjecta Least Yellow Underwing 5
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 2
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 3
2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 1
2155 Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth 3
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 7
2193 Mythimna ferrago Clay 2
2198 Mythimna impura Smoky Wainscot 1
2284x Acronicta tridens/psi Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger 5
2289 Acronicta rumicis Knot Grass 2
2291 Craniophora ligustri Coronet 1
2295 Cryphia muralis Marbled Green 3
2299 Amphipyra tragopoginis Mouse Moth 6
2318 Cosmia trapezina Dun-bar 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 19
2322 Apamea lithoxylaea Light Arches 1
2343 Mesapamea secalis Common Rustic 55
2352 Eremobia ochroleuca Dusky Sallow 1
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 12
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 18
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 10

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