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.


Tuesday, 21 June 2016

Species List for 20/6/2016

After a day off to honour the accuracy of the weather forecast (7 hours of rain), there were a few moths last night, but nothing exciting.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 8
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 16
1063 Celypha striana 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 2
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 2
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 2
1707 Idaea seriata Small Dusty Wave 1
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 4
1860 Pasiphila rectangulata Green Pug 3
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 1
1941 Alcis repandata Mottled Beauty 1
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 2
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 1
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 1
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 1
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 66
2098 Axylia putris Flame 1  
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 17
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 7
2302 Rusina ferruginea Brown Rustic 1
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 1
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 6
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 2

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