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, 9 October 2017

Species List for 8/10/2017

A slightly better night with 73 moths of 25 species, including three new for the year,
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Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 3
1415 Orthopygia glaucinalis 2
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1
1745 Larentia clavaria Mallow 1
1760 Chloroclysta siterata Red-green Carpet 1 NFY
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
2051 Lithosia quadra Four-spotted Footman 1
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 1
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 8
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 1
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 1
2195 Mythimna vitellina Delicate 2
2202 Mythimna l-album L-album Wainscot 1
2231 Aporophyla lutulenta Deep-brown Dart 1 NFY
2232 Aporophyla nigra Black Rustic 2
2240 Lithophane leautieri Blair's Shoulder-knot 1 NFY
2255 Polymixis lichenea Feathered Ranunculus 16
2266 Agrochola litura Brown-spot Pinion 1   
2267 Agrochola lychnidis Beaded Chestnut 6
2269 Atethmia centrago Centre-barred Sallow 1
2270 Omphaloscelis lunosa Lunar Underwing 16
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 1
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 2
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