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 26 May 2019

Species List for 25/5/2019

Another reasonable night with 130 moths of 42 species,four NFY.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 3
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 2
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 1
714 Agonopterix yeatiana 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 20
1011 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 4
1174 Epiblema cynosbatella 2
1356 Evergestis forficalis Garden Pebble 1
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 1
1724 Xanthorhoe spadicearia Red Twin-spot Carpet 1
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
1769 Thera britannica Spruce Carpet 1
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 1
1852 Eupithecia abbreviata Brindled Pug 1
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 1
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 3
1936 Menophra abruptaria Waved Umber 2   
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 1 NFY
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 1
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 2
2063 Diaphora mendica Muslin Moth 1
2069 Tyria jacobaeae Cinnabar 1 NFY
2078 Nola confusalis Least Black Arches 1
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 2
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 19
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 10
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 2
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 1
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 1
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 2
2164 Hecatera bicolorata Broad-barred White 1
2167 Hadena perplexa Tawny Shears 1 NFY
2280 Acronicta leporina Miller 1 NFY
2334 Apamea sordens Rustic Shoulder-knot 1
2337 Oligia strigilis Marbled Minor 1
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 15
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 10
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 4
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 3

 Tawny Shears

 Miller

 Cinnabar

Elephant Hawk-moth
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