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.


Monday 15 June 2015

Species List for 14/6/2015

Another damp and somewhat humid night produced 124 moths of 30 species. Single Bordered Straw and Silver Y werethe only migrants.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 3
143 Nematopogon metaxella 2
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 1
1174 Epiblema cynosbatella 1
1356 Evergestis forficalis Garden Pebble 1
1640 Euthrix potatoria Drinker 1 NFY
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 3
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1920 Odontopera bidentata Scalloped Hazel 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 1
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 1
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 2 NFY
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 5
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 7
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 51
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 10
2123 Diarsia rubi Small Square-spot 5
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 10
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 1
2278 Acronicta megacephala Poplar Grey 1 NFY
2279 Acronicta aceris Sycamore 1
2340 Oligia fasciuncula Middle-barred Minor 1
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 2
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 5
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 1
2403 Heliothis peltigera Bordered Straw 1
2422 Pseudoips prasinana Green Silver-lines 1 NFY
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 2 NFY

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