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.


Monday, 12 June 2017

Species List for 11/06/2017

A very moderate catch, but one that brought a new species to the garden list, a Purple Clay, a fairly common moth, but not recorder here before.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 12
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 1
1063 Celypha striana 5
1076 Celypha lacunana 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 2
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 1
1395 Udea ferrugalis Rusty-dot Pearl 1
1498 Amblyptilia punctidactyla 1
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1
1920 Odontopera bidentata Scalloped Hazel 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 1
2011 Pterostoma palpina Pale Prominent 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 1
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 3
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 21
2098 Axylia putris Flame 4
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 3
2122 Diarsia brunnea Purple Clay 1 NFS
2123 Diarsia rubi Small Square-spot 2
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 6
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 2
2157 Lacanobia w-latinum Light Brocade 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 2
2334 Apamea sordens Rustic Shoulder-knot 2
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 1
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 1
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 2
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 3
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1
2474 Rivula sericealis Straw Dot 2
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 1

 Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor)

 Light Brocade (Lacanobia w-latinum)

 Purple Clay (Diarsia brunnea)

Pale Prominent (Pterostoma palpina)

 Scalloped Hazel (Odontopera bidentata}

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Treble Lines (Charanyca trigrammica ab obsura)
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