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.


Sunday 22 April 2018

Species List for 21/04/2018

I think last night marks a turnig point in this spell of extra warm weather. At Midnight it was still 16 deg C, but by 4 pm today it had dropped to 12 deg and felt much colder. However last night produced three new moths for the year including the long overdue Powdered Quaker.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
Agonopterix sp. Agonopterix species 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 2
1524 Emmelina monodactyla Common Plume 1
1852 Eupithecia abbreviata Brindled Pug 1 NFY
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 10
2063 Diaphora mendica Muslin Moth 1 NFY
2182 Orthosia cruda Small Quaker 13
2186 Orthosia gracilis Powdered Quaker 1 NFY
2187 Orthosia cerasi Common Quaker 65
2188 Orthosia incerta Clouded Drab 5
2190 Orthosia gothica Hebrew Character 6

 Powdered Quaker

 Muslin Moth, male

 Muslin Moth, underside

 Brindled Pug
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