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 13 September 2014

Species List for 12/9/2014

Another very dismal catch,  where are all the migrants? Just three Diamond-backed Moths in that category. Altogether there were 155 moths of 31 species. Gallium Carpet was new for the year and a rather late addition, 6th Spetember being the previous latest date. The Dioryctria abietella was also the latest I've recorded, previous late date being 2nd September.
Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 3
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 1
977 Archips podana Large Fruit-tree Tortrix 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 9
1307 Agriphila latistria 1
1309 Agriphila geniculea 2
1454 Dioryctria abietella 1
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
1651 Cilix glaucata Chinese Character 2
1682 Timandra comae Blood-vein 2
1740 Epirrhoe galiata Galium Carpet 1 NFY
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 1
1914 Ennomos fuscantaria Dusky Thorn 2
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 4
1961 Campaea margaritata Light Emerald 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 44
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 10
2110 Noctua fimbriata Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 46
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 4
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1
2269 Atethmia centrago Centre-barred Sallow 1
2270 Omphaloscelis lunosa Lunar Underwing 2
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 1
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 6
2364 Gortyna flavago Frosted Orange 1
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 1
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 2
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 1
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