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 26/05/2018

A good night with 125 moths of 37 species. One annoying thing was the Pebble Hook-tip was on the outside of my actinic trap, and if fly before I could pot it. Altogether there were 11 NFY. A couple of pugs and micros still to do.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 2
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 8
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 2
714 Agonopterix yeatiana 3 NFY
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 11
1033 Tortrix viridana Green Oak Tortrix 3 NFY
1174 Epiblema cynosbatella 3
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 1 NFY
1301 Crambus lathoniellus 2 NFY
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 1
1474 Ephestia parasitella 1 NFY
1648 Drepana falcataria Pebble Hook-tip 1 NFY
1651 Cilix glaucata Chinese Character 1
1724 Xanthorhoe spadicearia Red Twin-spot Carpet 3
1727 Xanthorhoe montanata Silver-ground Carpet 1 NFY
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 2   
1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 1 NFY
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 6
1853 Eupithecia dodoneata Oak-tree Pug 1   
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 3
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 8
   2
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 1 NFY
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 1
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 2
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 1 NFY
2063 Diaphora mendica Muslin Moth 2
2078 Nola confusalis Least Black Arches 1
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 22
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 10
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 2
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 1
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 1
2278 Acronicta megacephala Poplar Grey 1 NFY
2289 Acronicta rumicis Knot Grass 1
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 1
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 11
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 2

  Poplar Grey, 

 Buff Ermine

 Green Oak Tortrix

 Crambus lathoniellus

 Silver-ground Carpet

Clouded Silver
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