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.


Friday, 15 June 2018

Species List for 14/06/2018

Despite it being a windy night there was a large increase in the number of moths and species, 334 moths of 62 species. There were four new micros for the year.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
14 Hepialus humuli Ghost Moth 2
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 3
424 Yponomeuta evonymella Bird-cherry Ermine 1
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 4
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 2
937 Agapeta hamana 1
994 Clepsis consimilana 1 NFY
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 20
1002 Lozotaenia forsterana 1
1082 Hedya pruniana Plum Tortrix 1
1083 Hedya nubiferana Marbled Orchard Tortrix 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 5
1356a Evergestis limbata 1 NFY
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 4
1415 Orthopygia glaucinalis 1 NFY
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 6
1458 Myelois circumvoluta Thistle Ermine 1 NFY
1481 Homoeosoma sinuella 1
1709 Idaea subsericeata Satin Wave 1
1711 Idaea trigeminata Treble Brown Spot 1   
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 1
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 7
1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 2
1817 Eupithecia pulchellata Foxglove Pug 4
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1827 Eupithecia intricata Freyer's Pug 2
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 1
1860 Pasiphila rectangulata Green Pug 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 4
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 4
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 5
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 1
2028 Calliteara pudibunda Pale Tussock 1
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 2
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 23
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 118
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 7
2098 Axylia putris Flame 3
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 2
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 13
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 22
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 1
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 7
2284x Acronicta tridens/psi Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger 2
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 4
2330 Apamea remissa Dusky Brocade 2
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 12
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 5
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 2
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 3
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 2
2450 Abrostola tripartita Spectacle 1
2474 Rivula sericealis Straw Dot 1
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 2
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 Agapeta hamana

Evergestis limbata

Thistle Ermine
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