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, 3 June 2019

Species List for 2/6/2019

A reasonable 169 moths of 46 species. A Dew Moth was a first for the site and there were five additional NFY. Photos later.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 3
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 11
1011 Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1
1342 Eudonia angustea 1
1356 Evergestis forficalis Garden Pebble 1
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 1
1458 Myelois circumvoluta Thistle Ermine 1 NFY
1709 Idaea subsericeata Satin Wave 1 NFY
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 1 NFY
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 2
1769 Thera britannica Spruce Carpet 1
1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 1
1827 Eupithecia intricata Freyer's Pug 1 NFY
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 2
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 1
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 1
1936 Menophra abruptaria Waved Umber 1
1944 Hypomecis punctinalis Pale Oak Beauty 1 NFY
1958 Lomographa temerata Clouded Silver 1
1961 Campaea margaritata Light Emerald 1
1980 Smerinthus ocellata Eyed Hawk-moth 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 1
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 3
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 1
2028 Calliteara pudibunda Pale Tussock 1
2036 Setina irrorella Dew Moth 1 NFS
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 2
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 3
2063 Diaphora mendica Muslin Moth 1
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 4
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 65
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 3
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 3
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 3
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 1
2289 Acronicta rumicis Knot Grass 1
2334 Apamea sordens Rustic Shoulder-knot 2
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 3
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 22
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 6
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 2
2399 Pyrrhia umbra Bordered Sallow 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 2

 Dew Moth

Pale Oak Beauty 

Thistle Ermine
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