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, 21 August 2017

Species List for 20/08/2017

Back to the Hidden House for a surfeit of Setaceous Hebrew Characters. Three Scarce Bordered Straws were the highlight.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
15 Hepialus sylvina Orange Swift 1
873 Blastobasis adustella 7
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 20
1063 Celypha striana 2
1303 Agriphila selasella 1
1304 Agriphila straminella 4
1305 Agriphila tristella 11
1398 Nomophila noctuella Rush Veneer 4
1470 Euzophera pinguis 1
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
1738 Epirrhoe alternata Common Carpet 1
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1830 Eupithecia absinthiata Wormwood Pug 1
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 1
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 4
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 2
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 2
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 74
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 19   
2112 Noctua interjecta Least Yellow Underwing 1
2123 Diarsia rubi Small Square-spot 5
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 346
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 3
2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 2
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 5
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 4
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 4
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 35
2400 Helicoverpa armigera Scarce Bordered Straw 3
2439 Plusia festucae Gold Spot 1
2449 Abrostola triplasia Dark Spectacle 1
Posted by at
Labels:

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Total Pageviews

StatCounter