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 20 June 2019

Species List for 18/6/2019

A large and prolonged thunderstorm occurred just after midnight. I managed to move two traps. 80w/1 and 80w/2 into "defensive positions, but I had to turn off my 125w Skinner, In the morning there was a lot of drying out to do, including the Robinson, the first time boxes in this trap had really got wet. Nevertheless there were 240 moths of about 45 species. A Small Blood-vein was NFY.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 4
874 Blastobasis lacticolella 2
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 4
1010 Ditula angustiorana Red-barred Tortrix 2
1011 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 4
1063 Celypha striana 2
1076 Celypha lacunana 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 5
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 2
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 1
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 2
1458 Myelois circumvoluta Thistle Ermine 1
1690 Scopula imitaria Small Blood-vein 1 NFY
1707 Idaea seriata Small Dusty Wave 1
1711 Idaea trigeminata Treble Brown Spot 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
1827 Eupithecia intricata Freyer's Pug 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 3
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 3
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 5   
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 1
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 6
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 1
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 10
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 87
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 6
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 1
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 26
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 1
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 1
2279 Acronicta aceris Sycamore 1
2280 Acronicta leporina Miller 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 4
2334 Apamea sordens Rustic Shoulder-knot 2
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 14
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 8
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 6
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 8
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 2
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 2
2450 Abrostola tripartita Spectacle 1
2474 Rivula sericealis Straw Dot 1
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 2
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