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, 16 June 2017

Species List for 15/06/2017

A Beautiful Hook-tip was only the second record for the garden, the first was on 4/7/15. In total there were 189 moths of 53 species.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 6
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 2
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 1
870 Oegoconia quadripuncta 1
874 Blastobasis lacticolella 1
994 Clepsis consimilana 2
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 6
1033 Tortrix viridana Green Oak Tortrix 1
1063 Celypha striana 1
1201 Eucosma cana 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 9
1301 Crambus lathoniellus 2
1333 Scoparia pyralella 3
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 3
1338 Dipleurina lacustrata 1
1342 Eudonia angustea 2
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 1
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 1
1498 Amblyptilia punctidactyla 1
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1   
1707 Idaea seriata Small Dusty Wave 2
1711 Idaea trigeminata Treble Brown Spot 1
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 4
1758 Eulithis pyraliata Barred Straw 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 2
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 2
1860 Pasiphila rectangulata Green Pug 1
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 1
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 3
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 2
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 28
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 40
2098 Axylia putris Flame 7
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 3
2123 Diarsia rubi Small Square-spot 2
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 13
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 1
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 1
2170 Hadena compta Varied Coronet 1
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1
2202 Mythimna l-album L-album Wainscot 1
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 6
2330 Apamea remissa Dusky Brocade 1
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 10
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 1
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 1
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 1
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1
2473 Laspeyria flexula Beautiful Hook-tip 1

 Beautiful Hook-tip

Varied Coronet 

Small Square-spot 

Amblyptilia  punctidactyla

Dusky Brocade
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