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.


Tuesday, 12 September 2017

Species List for 08/09/2017

The weather was awful, but I ran a single trap in our back door porch. I'd been playing with an old set of electrics that had been given to me, and a spare funnel I had. With the aid of a Bexley Council waste paper box,an old bit of hard bard, an old bit of perspex and a lot of bodging I knocked up a new 125W Box trap, which I tried out in the porch. It managed 59 moths of 11 species.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
1063 Celypha striana 1
1279 Dichrorampha acuminatana 1
1309 Agriphila geniculea 1
1914 Ennomos fuscantaria Dusky Thorn 1
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 21
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 3
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 21
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 1
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 1
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 7
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