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.


Sunday, 6 October 2019

Species List for 5/10/2019

Just two traps run, the Skinner (pond garden) and the Robinson (back garden). Despite the expected wet and windy weather it was an interesting night with 205 moths of 33 species. Mallow, just about on time and Red-line Quaker, a few days ahead of normal were NFY and a Red-green Carpet was first for the new generation. Migrants were single Diamond-back, Rusty-dot Pearl, Rush Veneer, Dark Sword-grass, and Scarce Bordered Straw, two Silver Us,  four Delicates and the fourth Convolvulus Hawk-moth of the year,

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 4
1342 Eudonia angustea 1
1395 Udea ferrugalis Rusty-dot Pearl 1
1398 Nomophila noctuella Rush Veneer 2
1745 Larentia clavaria Mallow 1 NFY
1760 Chloroclysta siterata Red-green Carpet 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
1972 Agrius convolvuli Convolvulus Hawk-moth 1
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 1
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 75
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 17
2110 Noctua fimbriata Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1
2117 Eugnorisma glareosa Autumnal Rustic 2
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 25
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 6
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 1
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1
2195 Mythimna vitellina Delicate 4
2232 Aporophyla nigra Black Rustic 3
2240 Lithophane leautieri Blair's Shoulder-knot 1
2255 Polymixis lichenea Feathered Ranunculus 3
2263 Agrochola lota Red-line Quaker 1 NFY
2266 Agrochola litura Brown-spot Pinion 1
2267 Agrochola lychnidis Beaded Chestnut 9
2270 Omphaloscelis lunosa Lunar Underwing 27
2272 Xanthia aurago Barred Sallow 1 NFY
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 3
2387a Platyperigea kadenii Clancy's Rustic 5
2400 Helicoverpa armigera Scarce Bordered Straw 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 2
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Convolvulus Hawk-moth - 4th this year.

 Mallow

 Scarce Bordered Straw - a rather battered one!

Red-line Quaker

Barred Sallow
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