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 27 May 2018

Species List for 25/05/2018

While we were on our first trip to the Pine Gardens I ran four traps at home. 49 moths of  28 species with seven NFY.  One micro still to ID.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17
 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 1 NFY
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
648 Endrosis sarcitrella White-shouldered House Moth 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 7
1063 Celypha striana 1
1288 Alucita hexadactyla Twenty-plume Moth 1
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 1 NFY
1651 Cilix glaucata Chinese Character 3
1724 Xanthorhoe spadicearia Red Twin-spot Carpet 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1 NFY
1769 Thera britannica Spruce Carpet 1 NFY
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 1
1858 Chloroclystis v-ata V-Pug 1
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1
1936 Menophra abruptaria Waved Umber 1
1944 Hypomecis punctinalis Pale Oak Beauty 1 NFY
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 1 NFY
2043 Eilema sororcula Orange Footman 1 NFY
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 4   
2063 Diaphora mendica Muslin Moth 1
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 3
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 2
2337 Oligia strigilis Marbled Minor 1
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 6
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 2
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 2
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Elephant Hawk-moth

 Orange Footman

 Bee Moth

 Pale Oak Beauty

 Common Marbled Carpet

Spruce Carpet
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