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 18 September 2017

Species List for 17/09/2017

The first Silver Y for 15 days was one of five species of migrants,the others being Diamond-back Moth, Delicate, Scarce Bordered Straw and Rush Veneer,  but all were singles. In addition Turnip and White Point could also be visitors. In total there were 183 moths of 25 species. The Scarce Bordered Straw was the 47th this year.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 3
1306 Agriphila inquinatella 1
1342 Eudonia angustea 1
1398 Nomophila noctuella Rush Veneer 1
1914 Ennomos fuscantaria Dusky Thorn 2
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 83
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 13
2110 Noctua fimbriata Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 4
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 43
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 4
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 2
2195 Mythimna vitellina Delicate 1
2202 Mythimna l-album L-album Wainscot 1
2269 Atethmia centrago Centre-barred Sallow 2
2270 Omphaloscelis lunosa Lunar Underwing 8
2297 Amphipyra pyramidea Copper Underwing 1
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 3
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 2   
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1
2400 Helicoverpa armigera Scarce Bordered Straw 1
2434 Diachrysia chrysitis Burnished Brass 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 2
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