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.


Saturday, 9 June 2018

Species List for 08/06/2018

The wind remains predominately from the North. 213 moths of 35 species including four NFY, three micros and one macro.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 7
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 2
874 Blastobasis lacticolella 1
937 Agapeta hamana 1 NFY
951 Aethes beatricella 1 NFY
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 3
1083 Hedya nubiferana Marbled Orchard Tortrix 1 NFY
1174 Epiblema cynosbatella 1
1301 Crambus lathoniellus 1
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 1
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 2
1682 Timandra comae Blood-vein 1
1739 Epirrhoe rivata Wood Carpet 1 NFY
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 2
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 2
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 4
2003 Notodonta ziczac Pebble Prominent 1
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 4
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 8   
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 119
2098 Axylia putris Flame 3
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 8
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 1
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 1
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 2
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 7
2334 Apamea sordens Rustic Shoulder-knot 1
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 3
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 11
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 7
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 2
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1
2474 Rivula sericealis Straw Dot 1

 Wood Carpet

 Aethes beatricella

 Agapeta hamana

Hedya nubiferana, Marbled Orchard Tortrix



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