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.


Saturday, 18 May 2019

Species List for 17//5/2019

A slightly milder, overcast night brought a few goodies. Unfortunately the Chocolate Tip mysteriously vanished as I emptied the trap.  In total 36 moths of 19 species, including 4 NFY.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 1
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 6
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 6
1288 Alucita hexadactyla Twenty-plume Moth 1
1356 Evergestis forficalis Garden Pebble 1 NFY
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1
1769 Thera britannica Spruce Carpet 1
1808 Perizoma flavofasciata Sandy Carpet 1 NFY
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1 NFY
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 2
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1
1936 Menophra abruptaria Waved Umber 2
2019 Clostera curtula Chocolate-tip 1 NFY
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 1
2063 Diaphora mendica Muslin Moth 3
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 1
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 4
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 1

 Spruce Carpet

  Spruce Carpet

 Common Pug

 Lime-speck Pug

 Sandy Carpet

Garden Pebble
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