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, 10 May 2020

Species List for 09/05/2020

After the exceptional weather a better day with 47 moths of 24 species, 11 NFY. Always good to see a Privet Hawk-moth.
Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
648 Endrosis sarcitrella White-shouldered House Moth 1 NFY
697 Agonopterix arenella 1 NFY
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 7
1174 Epiblema cynosbatella 1
1288 Alucita hexadactyla Twenty-plume Moth 1
1738 Epirrhoe alternata Common Carpet 1 NFY
1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 2 NFY
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 1 NFY
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 2
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 1 NFY
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 2
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1 NFY
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 1 NFY
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 1
2028 Calliteara pudibunda Pale Tussock 2
2063 Diaphora mendica Muslin Moth 3
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 1
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 6
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 1 NFY
2164 Hecatera bicolorata Broad-barred White 1   
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 2 NFY
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 4
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1 NFY
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 3
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Privet Hawk-moth

Willow Beauty

Willow Beauty

Common Carpet

Common Pug

Bright-line Brown-eye

Pale Mottled Willow, 

Yellow-barred Brindle

Agonopterix arenella

Green Carpet

 Epiblema cynosbatella
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