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.


Friday, 27 October 2017

Species List for 26/10/2017

Two stunningly perfect Palpita vitrealis and another Oak Rustic, were the highlights of a reasonably night. Two traps, the 125w Skinner and 125W Robinson yielded 51 moths of 21 species.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 8
1395 Udea ferrugalis Rusty-dot Pearl 5
1408 Palpita vitrealis 2
1415 Orthopygia glaucinalis 1
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
1795x Epirrita dilutata agg. November Moth agg. 4
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 3
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 7
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 2
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 2
2195 Mythimna vitellina Delicate 1
2232 Aporophyla nigra Black Rustic 2
2246a Dryobota labecula Oak Rustic 1
2255 Polymixis lichenea 1
2259 Conistra ligula Dark Chestnut 2
2264 Agrochola macilenta Yellow-line Quaker 1
2267 Agrochola lychnidis Beaded Chestnut 2
2375 Rhizedra lutosa Large Wainscot 3
2441 Rivula sericealis Silver Y 1
2474 Autographa gamma Straw Dot 1


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