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.


Friday, 8 May 2020

Species List for 07/05/2020

At last, something that looks like a list. 30 Moths of 15 species including 7 NFY.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 1 NFY
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 5
1288 Alucita hexadactyla Twenty-plume Moth 1
1651 Cilix glaucata Chinese Character 1 NFY
1724 Xanthorhoe spadicearia Red Twin-spot Carpet 2 NFY
1853 Eupithecia dodoneata Oak-tree Pug 1 NFY
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 2
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 8
1936 Menophra abruptaria Waved Umber 1 NFY
2006 Pheosia gnoma Lesser Swallow Prominent 1 NFY
2063 Diaphora mendica Muslin Moth 1
2078 Nola confusalis Least Black Arches 3
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 1 NFY
2190 Orthosia gothica Hebrew Character 1
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 1 NFY
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 Lesser Swallow Prominent
 Waved Umber

 Heart and Dart

 Treble Lines 
 Red Twin-spot Carpet

 Least Black Arches

 Double-striped Pug
Oak-tree Pug
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