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 June 2016

Species List for 9/6/2016 - National Moth Night (night one).

National Moth Night 2016 is three nights, 9th, 10th and 11th June. The list below is therefore my first contribution and a very disappointing one at that. The main theme of Moth Night 2016 is 'hawk-moths' and as yet I haven't caught a single species of Hawk-moth in 2016.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 6
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 3
648 Endrosis sarcitrella White-shouldered House Moth 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 10
1084 Hedya ochroleucana 1
1333 Scoparia pyralella 1
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 1
1342 Eudonia angustea 2
1819 Eupithecia exiguata Mottled Pug 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 2
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 7
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 1
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 15
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 5
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 1
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 1
2157 Lacanobia w-latinum Light Brocade 1  
2334 Apamea sordens Rustic Shoulder-knot 2
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 1
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 4
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 1
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  1. Boughton Moths11 June 2016 at 11:42

    I've not recorded a hawk-moth yet this year either...........

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    1. Tony Morris12 June 2016 at 06:50

      I see someone caught a Silver-striped Hawk-moth yesterday, fingers crossed!

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