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.


Wednesday 20 June 2018

Species List for 19/06/2018

A similar number to yesterday with 255 moths of 44 species.  There were four NFY, three micros and one macro.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 1
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 1
874 Blastobasis lacticolella 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 5
1063 Celypha striana 3
1290 Chilo phragmitella 1 NFY
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 6
1301 Crambus lathoniellus 1
1332 Scoparia subfusca 1 NFY
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 2
1513 Pterophorus pentadactyla White Plume Moth 1 NFY
1887 Lomaspilis marginata Clouded Border 1 NFY
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 2
1944 Hypomecis punctinalis Pale Oak Beauty 1
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 1
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 3
1980 Smerinthus ocellata Eyed Hawk-moth 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 10
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 1
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 3   
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 1
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 33
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 82
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 1
2098 Axylia putris Flame 4
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 2
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 32
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 17
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 1
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 2
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1
2198 Mythimna impura Smoky Wainscot 1
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 2
2284x Acronicta tridens/psi Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 10
2322 Apamea lithoxylaea Light Arches 2
2326 Apamea crenata Clouded-bordered Brindle 1
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 2
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 3
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 1
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 1
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 3
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 4
2450 Abrostola tripartita Spectacle 2

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