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.


Sunday 12 June 2016

Species List for 11/6/2016 - National Moth Night (night three).

No Silver-striped Hawk-moth, but another Small Elephant Hawk-moth and a Poplar Hawk-moth along with a greater variety of other species, including a Pima boisduvaliella, which was a first for the garden. The unfortunate Clouded-bordered Brindle had fallen victim to a spider before I extracted it.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 2
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 117
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 2
648 Endrosis sarcitrella White-shouldered House Moth 1
672 Depressaria heraclei Parsnip Moth 1
874 Blastobasis lacticolella 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 20
1010 Ditula angustiorana Red-barred Tortrix 1
1011 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1
1301 Crambus lathoniellus 2
1333 Scoparia pyralella   2
1342 Eudonia angustea 2
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 1
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 1
1453 Pima boisduvaliella 1
1711 Idaea trigeminata Treble Brown Spot 1
1738 Epirrhoe alternata Common Carpet 2
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 4
1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 3
1808 Perizoma flavofasciata Sandy Carpet 1  
1817 Eupithecia pulchellata Foxglove Pug 1
1819 Eupithecia exiguata Mottled Pug 1
1823 Eupithecia venosata Netted Pug 1
1827 Eupithecia intricata Freyer's Pug 1
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 4
1890 Macaria alternata Sharp-angled Peacock 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 1
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 5
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 3
1981 Laothoe populi Poplar Hawk-moth 1
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 1
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 1
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 3
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 2
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 24
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 4
2098 Axylia putris Flame 2
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 8
2123 Diarsia rubi Small Square-spot 1
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 3
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 2
2157 Lacanobia w-latinum Light Brocade 1
2326 Apamea crenata Clouded-bordered Brindle 1
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 5
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 5
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 2
2492 Herminia grisealis Small Fan-foot 1
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