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 7 September 2019

Species List for 04/9/2019

A Convolvulus Hawk Moth, my 11th here and the first since Oct 2016 was a nice surprise. In total there were 365 moths of 23 species. Two Diamond-back Moths, a Rush Veneer and a Dark Sword-grass were additional migrants.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
15 Hepialus sylvina Orange Swift 1
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 2
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 4
1305 Agriphila tristella 4
1309 Agriphila geniculea 5
1398 Nomophila noctuella Rush Veneer 1
1914 Ennomos fuscantaria Dusky Thorn 2
1972 Agrius convolvuli Convolvulus Hawk-moth 1 NFY
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 7
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 1
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 1
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 34
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 15
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 2
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 220
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 14
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 2
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 6
2269 Atethmia centrago Centre-barred Sallow 1   
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 16
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 24
2449 Abrostola triplasia Dark Spectacle 1
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 Convolvulus Hawk-moth

Dark Sword-grass
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