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.


Thursday, 19 October 2017

Species List for 18/10/2017

Another reasonable night with 102 moths of 32 species. A few migrants, Scarce Bordered Straw x2, Delicate, Dark Sword-grass and Palpita vitrealis, but none of  significance. The Willow Beauty, Brimstone and Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing were late surprises, the Brimstone and Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing were my latest ever and the Willow Beauty the third latest, only two in 2014 were later.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
994 Clepsis consimilana 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 14
1342 Eudonia angustea 2
1408 Palpita vitrealis 1
1424 Endotricha flammealis 1
1497 Amblyptilia acanthadactyla 1
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 3
1745 Larentia clavaria Mallow 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
1767 Thera firmata Pine Carpet 1
1771a Thera cupressata Cypress Carpet 1
1795x Epirrita dilutata agg. November Moth agg. 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 1
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 3
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 17
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 3
2110 Noctua fimbriata Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 8
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 3   
2195 Mythimna vitellina Delicate 1
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 1
2232 Aporophyla nigra Black Rustic 4
2240 Lithophane leautieri Blair's Shoulder-knot 2
2255 Polymixis lichenea Feathered Ranunculus 2
2264 Agrochola macilenta Yellow-line Quaker 1
2267 Agrochola lychnidis Beaded Chestnut 16
2270 Omphaloscelis lunosa Lunar Underwing 5
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 1
2375 Rhizedra lutosa Large Wainscot 1
2400 Helicoverpa armigera Scarce Bordered Straw 2
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