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 10 July 2015

Species List for 9/7/2015

Temperature dropped to 14.1 deg C over night. Altogether there were 210 moths of 52 species.
A nice Lobster Moth was only the 5th I've caught.


 Least Carpet

 Lobster Moth

 Lobster Moth

 Bordered Sallow

 Dioryctria abietella

 Swallow Prominent

Cloaked Minor


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
874 Blastobasis lacticolella 2
977 Archips podana Large Fruit-tree Tortrix 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 4
1001 Lozotaeniodes formosanus 1
1063 Celypha striana
5
1076 Celypha lacunana
1
1201 Eucosma cana
1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 8
1302 Crambus perlella
2
1334 Scoparia ambigualis
8
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 2
1395 Udea ferrugalis Rusty-dot Pearl 1
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 1
1454 Dioryctria abietella
1
1524 Emmelina monodactyla
1
1699 Idaea rusticata atrosignaria Least Carpet 1
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 1
1738 Epirrhoe alternata Common Carpet 1
1758 Eulithis pyraliata Barred Straw 6
1830 Eupithecia absinthiata Wormwood Pug 1
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 1
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 1   
1921 Crocallis elinguaria Scalloped Oak 2
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 4
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 5
1999 Stauropus fagi Lobster Moth 1 NFY
2007 Pheosia tremula Swallow Prominent 1
2009 Ptilodon cucullina Maple Prominent 1
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 5
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 9
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 1
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 13
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 27
2098 Axylia putris Flame 11
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 6
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 7
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 1
2155 Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth 2
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 3
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 9
2322 Apamea lithoxylaea Light Arches 1
2327 Apamea epomidion Clouded Brindle 1
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 4
2341 Mesoligia furuncula Cloaked Minor 1 NFY
2343 Mesapamea secalis Common Rustic 18
2381x Hoplodrina alsines/blanda Uncertain/Rustic agg. 15
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 1
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 5
2385 Spodoptera exigua Small Mottled Willow 1
2399 Pyrrhia umbra Bordered Sallow 1 NFY
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1

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