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.


Thursday, 5 July 2018

Species List for 04/07/2018

Another very warm morning, meaning that by the time I got to my 4th and 5th traps things were getting lively, and there may have been a few escapees. In total there were 333 moths of 84 species, two micros and two macros were NFY.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
14 Hepialus humuli Ghost Moth 1
424 Yponomeuta evonymella Bird-cherry Ermine 3
0425x Yponomeuta padella/malinellus 3
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 4
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 2
977 Archips podana Large Fruit-tree Tortrix 1
994 Clepsis consimilana 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 2
1063 Celypha striana 4
1201 Eucosma cana 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 6
1294 Crambus pascuella 1
1302 Crambus perlella 15
1304 Agriphila straminella 1
1325 Platytes alpinella 1
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 2
1338 Dipleurina lacustrata 3
1365 Pyrausta despicata 1 NFY
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 4
1424 Endotricha flammealis 2
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 4
1436 Conobathra repandana 1
1438 Trachycera suavella 1
1452 Phycita roborella 1 NFY
1458 Myelois circumvoluta Thistle Ermine 2
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
1653 Habrosyne pyritoides Buff Arches 1
1690 Scopula imitaria Small Blood-vein 2
1699 Idaea rusticata Least Carpet 5
1707 Idaea seriata Small Dusty Wave 1
1708 Idaea dimidiata Single-dotted Wave 4
1711 Idaea trigeminata Treble Brown Spot 1
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 15
1738 Epirrhoe alternata Common Carpet 1
1758 Eulithis pyraliata Barred Straw 2
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 1
1860 Pasiphila rectangulata Green Pug 1
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 5
1887 Lomaspilis marginata Clouded Border 1
1904 Plagodis dolabraria Scorched Wing 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1
1921 Crocallis elinguaria Scalloped Oak 1
1922 Ourapteryx sambucaria Swallow-tailed Moth 3 NFY
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 7
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 5
1941 Alcis repandata Mottled Beauty 1
1944 Hypomecis punctinalis Pale Oak Beauty 1
1947 Ectropis bistortata Engrailed 2
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 1
1981 Laothoe populi Poplar Hawk-moth 2
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 15
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 15
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 8
2076 Meganola albula Kent Black Arches 1 NFY
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 2
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 13
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 8
2098 Axylia putris Flame 7
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 8
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 1
2110 Noctua fimbriata Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 5
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 2
2155 Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth 2
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 2
2193 Mythimna ferrago Clay 2
2198 Mythimna impura Smoky Wainscot 1
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 3
2202 Mythimna l-album L-album Wainscot 1
2291 Craniophora ligustri Coronet 1
2318 Cosmia trapezina Dun-bar 5
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 31
2322 Apamea lithoxylaea Light Arches 2
2327 Apamea epomidion Clouded Brindle 1
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 3
2343 Mesapamea secalis Common Rustic 2
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 26
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 9
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 2
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 10
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 7
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 2
2489 Zanclognatha tarsipennalis Fan-foot 1
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