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.


Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Species List for 07/05/2018

51 moths of 21 species including five NFY represented a big incerease compared to the previous day.
Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 5
1288 Alucita hexadactyla Twenty-plume Moth 2
1524 Emmelina monodactyla Common Plume 1
1651 Cilix glaucata Chinese Character 1 NFY
1724 Xanthorhoe spadicearia Red Twin-spot Carpet 2
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 2 NFY
1853 Eupithecia dodoneata Oak-tree Pug 2
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 4
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 2 NFY
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 8
1936 Menophra abruptaria Waved Umber 2
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 1 NFY
2063 Diaphora mendica Muslin Moth 3
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
2187 Orthosia cerasi Common Quaker 4
2190 Orthosia gothica Hebrew Character 5
2236 Lithophane hepatica Pale Pinion 1
2243 Xylocampa areola Early Grey 1
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 2
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1 NFY
2425 Colocasia coryli Nut-tree Tussock 1


Common Pug

Yellow-barred Brindle

Chinese Character -  but not as we normally see it.

Chinese Character-  in its normal bit of bird dropping pose.

White Ermine

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