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.


Friday, 3 July 2015

Species List for 1/7/2015

A Very hot night, and almost impossible in the morning, by the time I got to my last trap it was so warm everyting was very lively. Lots of micros, some of which I managed to pot and ID!  In total 475 moths of 103 species were recorded. Despite the weather migrants were not plentiful, with only a DiamDiamond-backed Moth and a Small Mottled Willow. The first Evergestis Limbata of the year, a personal favourite, was possibly a migrant, but more likely a colonist.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
14 Hepialus humuli Ghost Moth 1
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 3
419 Argyresthia semifusca 1 NFS
424 Yponomeuta evonymella Bird-cherry Ermine 1 NFY
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 2
469 Eidophasia messingiella 1 NFY
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 12
874 Blastobasis lacticolella 3
937 Agapeta hamana 6
970 Pandemis cerasana Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix 1
994 Clepsis consimilana 7
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 33
1002 Lozotaenia forsterana 1
1010 Ditula angustiorana Red-barred Tortrix 12
1063 Celypha striana 5
1076 Celypha lacunana 1
1082 Hedya pruniana Plum Tortrix 2
1083 Hedya nubiferana Marbled Orchard Tortrix 4
1165 Zeiraphera isertana 5 NFY
1166 Zeiraphera griseana Larch Tortrix 2 NFS
1201 Eucosma cana 1
1234 Pammene regiana 3 NFY
1235 Pammene trauniana 2 NFS
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 31
1294 Crambus pascuella 2
1333 Scoparia pyralella 1
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 4
1344 Eudonia mercurella 4
1356a Evergestis limbata 1 NFY
1361 Pyrausta aurata 2
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 2
1378 Phlyctaenia coronata 2
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 3
1436 Conobathra repandana 2 NFY
1454 Dioryctria abietella 1 NFY
1481 Homoeosoma sinuella 2
1498 Amblyptilia punctidactyla 1 NFY
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
1654 Tethea ocularis Figure of Eighty 1
1690 Scopula imitaria Small Blood-vein 1
1699 Idaea rusticata atrosignaria Least Carpet 1 NFY
1709 Idaea subsericeata Satin Wave 1 NFY
1711 Idaea trigeminata Treble Brown Spot 12
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 13
1727 Xanthorhoe montanata Silver-ground Carpet 2
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 4
1738 Epirrhoe alternata Common Carpet 1
1758 Eulithis pyraliata Barred Straw 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
1767 Thera firmata Pine Carpet 1
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1827 Eupithecia intricata Freyer's Pug 6
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 2
1839 Eupithecia succenturiata Bordered Pug 1
1860 Pasiphila rectangulata Green Pug 1
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 2
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 1
1887 Lomaspilis marginata Clouded Border 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 3
1910 Apeira syringaria Lilac Beauty 1 NFY
1920 Odontopera bidentata Scalloped Hazel 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 4
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
1941 Alcis repandata Mottled Beauty 9
1955 Cabera pusaria Common White Wave 1 NFY
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 8
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 2
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 6
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 2
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 2
2029 Euproctis chrysorrhoea Brown-tail 3
2039 Atolmis rubricollis Red-necked Footman 9
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 4
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 34
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 59
2098 Axylia putris Flame 17
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 14
2123 Diarsia rubi Small Square-spot 6
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 11
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 2
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 1
2155 Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth 2
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 1
2196 Mythimna pudorina Striped Wainscot 1 NFY
2278 Acronicta megacephala Poplar Grey 1
2280 Acronicta leporina Miller 1 NFY
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 7
2327 Apamea epomidion Clouded Brindle 1
2330 Apamea remissa Dusky Brocade 1 NFY
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 12
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 3
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 2
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 2
2385 Spodoptera exigua Small Mottled Willow 1    
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 5
2410 Protodeltote pygarga Marbled White Spot 1 NFY
2422 Pseudoips prasinana Green Silver-lines 3
2474 Rivula sericealis Straw Dot 1
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 2
2489 Zanclognatha tarsipennalis Fan-foot 2 NFY

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