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.


Monday, 8 April 2019

Species List for 7/4/2019

An interesting collection of just 26 moths. Four new for the year, all micros. The putative Leek moth has been reidentified by Ian Roberts and Dave Shelton (the County Recorder) as the similar Digitivalva pulicariae. Thanks still to Ben Sale for his help.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
472 Digitivalva pulicariae 1 NFy
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 1 NFY
1054 Acleris cristana 1 NFY
1288 Alucita hexadactyla Twenty-plume Moth 1 NFY
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 8
2187 Orthosia cerasi Common Quaker 5
2188 Orthosia incerta Clouded Drab 1
2190 Orthosia gothica Hebrew Character 5
2243 Xylocampa areola Early Grey 2
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 1

 Acleris cristana

 Leek Moth (Acrolepiopsis assectella)

 Leek Moth (Acrolepiopsis assectella)

 Light Brown Apple Moth

Twenty-plume Moth
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