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, 8 July 2018

Species List for 07/07/2018

Another day when I was almost overwhelmed by the number of moths. I coped quite well  until the last trap, this time the Robinson. The temperature had risen so quickly that most of the moths in the trap were fidgety in the extreme. There is no doubt that I missed a couple but hopefully just a few over-active Dark Arches. I recorded 624 moths of 112 species with three micro and five macro NFY.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
173 Apoda limacodes Festoon 2
424 Yponomeuta evonymella Bird-cherry Ermine 2
0425x Yponomeuta padella/malinellus 11
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 6
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 2
718 Ethmia dodecea 1 NFY
873 Blastobasis adustella 2
937 Agapeta hamana 2
994 Clepsis consimilana 1
1036 Acleris forsskaleana 1 NFY
1063 Celypha striana 3
1260 Cydia splendana 1 NFY
1288 Alucita hexadactyla Twenty-plume Moth 4
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 10
1294 Crambus pascuella 1
1302 Crambus perlella 10
1304 Agriphila straminella 6
1325 Platytes alpinella 1
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 3
1338 Dipleurina lacustrata 1   
1356a Evergestis limbata 1
1357 Evergestis extimalis 1
1375 Ostrinia nubilalis European Corn Borer 4
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 2
1378 Phlyctaenia coronata 2
1405 Pleuroptya ruralis Mother of Pearl 1
1415 Orthopygia glaucinalis 1
1424 Endotricha flammealis 7
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 2
1439 Trachycera advenella 1
1458 Myelois circumvoluta Thistle Ermine 4
1483 Phycitodes binaevella 1
1495 Marasmarcha lunaedactyla 3
1634 Malacosoma neustria Lackey 1 NFY
1640 Euthrix potatoria Drinker 1
1651 Cilix glaucata Chinese Character 2
1653 Habrosyne pyritoides Buff Arches 4
1669 Hemithea aestivaria Common Emerald 1
1682 Timandra comae Blood-vein 1
1690 Scopula imitaria Small Blood-vein 2
1692 Scopula immutata Lesser Cream Wave 1 NFY
1699 Idaea rusticata atrosignaria Least Carpet 2
1702 Idaea biselata Small Fan-footed Wave 3
1705 Idaea fuscovenosa Dwarf Cream Wave 3
1708 Idaea dimidiata Single-dotted Wave 4
1711 Idaea trigeminata Treble Brown Spot 1
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 26
1724 Xanthorhoe spadicearia Red Twin-spot Carpet 1
1758 Eulithis pyraliata Barred Straw 3
1804 Perizoma bifaciata Barred Rivulet 1 NFY
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 2
1858 Chloroclystis v-ata V-Pug 4
1860 Pasiphila rectangulata Green Pug 1
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 4
1887 Lomaspilis marginata Clouded Border 2
1888 Ligdia adustata Scorched Carpet 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 5
1910 Apeira syringaria Lilac Beauty 1
1921 Crocallis elinguaria Scalloped Oak 2
1922 Ourapteryx sambucaria Swallow-tailed Moth 2
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 4
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 9
1947 Ectropis bistortata Engrailed 5
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 9
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 2
1981 Laothoe populi Poplar Hawk-moth 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 21
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 1
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 2
2029 Euproctis chrysorrhoea Brown-tail 7
2030 Euproctis similis Yellow-tail 1
2037 Miltochrista miniata Rosy Footman 2
2047 Eilema complana Scarce Footman 3
2049 Eilema depressa Buff Footman 1
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 62
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 5
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 14
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 18
2098 Axylia putris Flame 19
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 4
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 5
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 3
2112 Noctua interjecta Least Yellow Underwing 1 NFY
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 6
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 5
2155 Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth 3
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 7
2193 Mythimna ferrago Clay 2
2198 Mythimna impura Smoky Wainscot 5
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 4
2278 Acronicta megacephala Poplar Grey 1
2279 Acronicta aceris Sycamore 1
2284x Acronicta tridens/psi Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger 4
2291 Craniophora ligustri Coronet 2
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 3
2318 Cosmia trapezina Dun-bar 2
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 104
2322 Apamea lithoxylaea Light Arches 4
2327 Apamea epomidion Clouded Brindle 1
2330 Apamea remissa Dusky Brocade 1
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 1
2343 Mesapamea secalis Common Rustic 11
2352 Eremobia ochroleuca Dusky Sallow 1 NFY
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 48
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 7
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 2
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 8
2410 Protodeltote pygarga Marbled White Spot 1
2422 Pseudoips prasinana Green Silver-lines 2
2434 Diachrysia chrysitis Burnished Brass 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 2
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 5
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