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.


Saturday, 24 June 2017

Species List for 23/06/2017

The heat wave has ended and the wind has picked up. Consequently theer were far fewer moths last night, just 100 of about 35 species. There was one new for the year, a Langmaid's Yellow Underwing, the earliest I've had by 14 days.
Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
994 Clepsis consimilana 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 1
1063 Celypha striana 2
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 9
1302 Crambus perlella 1
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 3
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 1
1424 Endotricha flammealis 2
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 1
1711 Idaea trigeminata Treble Brown Spot 2
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 1
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 1
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 2
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 5
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 1
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 8
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 9
2098 Axylia putris Flame 5   
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 8
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 1
2110a Noctua janthina Langmaid's Yellow Underwing 1
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 8
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 1
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 2
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 12
2322 Apamea lithoxylaea Light Arches 1
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 1
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 1
2381x Hoplodrina alsines/blanda Uncertain/Rustic agg. 2
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 1
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 1
2422 Pseudoips prasinana Green Silver-lines 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1
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