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, 30 July 2014

Species List for 29/7/2014

Good to have a reasonable night, albeit a bit colder, down to 16 deg C, than the previous few nights. Another Cochylis species, but this one looked different around the head and thorax, being whiter. I've not chopped it up, but it looks more like pallidana to me. Altogether there were 404 moths of 72 species, of which there were 112 micro moths of 22 species.

 Amblyptilia punctidactyla

 Dark Spectacle

 Cochylis pallidana - My identification from pictures, I've not dissected it, as it now has its freedom.

 Lathronympha strigana

Iron Prominent

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
426 Yponomeuta malinellus Apple Ermine 3
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
787 Bryotropha terrella 2
873 Blastobasis adustella 35
874 Blastobasis lacticolella 2
937 Agapeta hamana 3
967 Cochylis pallidana 1 NFS
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 21
1010 Ditula angustiorana Red-barred Tortrix 1
1048 Acleris variegana Garden Rose Tortrix 1
1063 Celypha striana 1
1219 Lathronympha strigana 1
1260 Cydia splendana 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 1
1302 Crambus perlella 2
1304 Agriphila straminella 15
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 2
1344 Eudonia mercurella 8
1375 Ostrinia nubilalis European Corn Borer 1
1424 Endotricha flammealis 7
1438 Trachycera suavella 1
1498 Amblyptilia punctidactyla 2
1651 Cilix glaucata Chinese Character 1
1673 Hemistola chrysoprasaria Small Emerald 1
1682 Timandra comae Blood-vein 1
1699 Idaea rusticata atrosignaria Least Carpet 5
1702 Idaea biselata Small Fan-footed Wave 7
1708 Idaea dimidiata Single-dotted Wave 4
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 41
1738 Epirrhoe alternata Common Carpet 1
1742 Camptogramma bilineata Yellow Shell 1
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 3
1830 Eupithecia absinthiata Wormwood Pug 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1
1917 Selenia dentaria Early Thorn 1
1921 Crocallis elinguaria Scalloped Oak 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 1
2000 Notodonta dromedarius Iron Prominent 1
2026 Orgyia antiqua Vapourer 1
2044 Eilema griseola Dingy Footman 9
2047 Eilema complana Scarce Footman 2
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 4
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 2
2064 Phragmatobia fuliginosa Ruby Tiger 1
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 1
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 14
2098 Axylia putris Flame 1
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 11
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 7
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 6
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 35
2112 Noctua interjecta Least Yellow Underwing 4
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 5
2155 Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth 2
2193 Mythimna ferrago Clay 6
2279 Acronicta aceris Sycamore 1
2284x Acronicta tridens/psi Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger 4
2289 Acronicta rumicis Knot Grass 2
2291 Craniophora ligustri Coronet 4
2295 Cryphia muralis Marbled Green 3
2299 Amphipyra tragopoginis Mouse Moth 1
2318 Cosmia trapezina Dun-bar 2
2319 Cosmia pyralina Lunar-spotted Pinion 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 13
2343 Mesapamea secalis Common Rustic 67
2352 Eremobia ochroleuca Dusky Sallow 1
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 1
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 2
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 2
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 4
2449 Abrostola triplasia Dark Spectacle 1
2489 Zanclognatha tarsipennalis Fan-foot 1
Posted by at
Labels: , , , , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Total Pageviews

StatCounter