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.


Tuesday 17 September 2019

Species List for 16/9/2019

Just 110 moths of 25 species. Two Delicates were welcome, but it seems the Box moth is less so. The Copper Undewing species was to worn to specifically identify.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 2
658 Carcina quercana 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 8
1309 Agriphila geniculea 5
1409a Diaphania perspectalis Boxworm 1
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1
1914 Ennomos fuscantaria Dusky Thorn 3
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 3
2064 Phragmatobia fuliginosa Ruby Tiger 1
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 17
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 4
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 27
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 7
2164 Hecatera bicolorata Broad-barred White 3
2195 Mythimna vitellina Delicate 2
2269 Atethmia centrago Centre-barred Sallow 8
2270 Omphaloscelis lunosa Lunar Underwing 2   
2297x Amphipyra pyramidea agg. Copper Underwing agg. 1
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 3
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 5
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 2
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1
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