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 29 August 2019

Species List for 28/8/2019

Only 42 species as the temperature dropped and a breeze picked up. There were 436 moths in total. Yesterday's Dark Crimson Underwing was released after I'd taken a photo of the underwing

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
15 Hepialus sylvina Orange Swift 1
969 Pandemis corylana Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix 1
994 Clepsis consimilana 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 9
1048 Acleris variegana Garden Rose Tortrix 2
1305 Agriphila tristella 12
1309 Agriphila geniculea 7
1375 Ostrinia nubilalis European Corn Borer 1
1395 Udea ferrugalis Rusty-dot Pearl 2
1409a Diaphania perspectalis Boxworm 1
1651 Cilix glaucata Chinese Character 1
1690 Scopula imitaria Small Blood-vein 1
1738 Epirrhoe alternata Common Carpet 1
1739 Epirrhoe rivata Wood Carpet 1
1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 1
1782 Horisme tersata Fern 1
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 3
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 2
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 11   
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 2
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 3
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 51
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 7
2110 Noctua fimbriata Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 5
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 158
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 17
2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 2
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 5
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 5
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 22
2299 Amphipyra tragopoginis Mouse Moth 1
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 1
2343x Mesapamea secalis agg. Common Rustic agg. 2
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 27
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 45
2385 Spodoptera exigua Small Mottled Willow 2
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 7
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 11
2449 Abrostola triplasia Dark Spectacle 1
2474 Rivula sericealis Straw Dot 1
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 Use of the time release enabled me to get a shot of my thumb, plus the hind wing of yesterday's Dark Crimson Underwing.
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