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.


Monday, 25 May 2020

Species List for 24/05/2020

A warmer night and a better total with 103 moths of 34 species, plus a couple of micros to ID.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 1
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1 NFY
714 Agonopterix yeatiana 1 NFY
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 15
1033 Tortrix viridana Green Oak Tortrix 3
1174 Epiblema cynosbatella 3
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 1 NFY
1342 Eudonia angustea 2
1380 Phlyctaenia perlucidalis 1 NFY
1465 Nephopterix angustella 1 NFY
1689 Scopula marginepunctata Mullein Wave 1 NFY
1709 Idaea subsericeata Satin Wave 1
1724 Xanthorhoe spadicearia Red Twin-spot Carpet 1
1752 Cosmorhoe ocellata Purple Bar 1 NFY
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 1
1819 Eupithecia exiguata Mottled Pug 1
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 6
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 3   
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 2
1936 Menophra abruptaria Waved Umber 1
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 2
1944 Hypomecis punctinalis Pale Oak Beauty 1 NFY
1979 Mimas tiliae Lime Hawk-moth 1
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 3
2028 Calliteara pudibunda Pale Tussock 2
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 22
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 6
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 1
2223 Calophasia lunula Toadflax Brocade 1
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 4
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 18
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 3
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 Phlyctaenia perlucidalis

 Agonopterix yeatiana

 Purple Bar

 Pale Oak Beauty

 Mullein Wave

 Chrysoteuchia culmella

Satin Wave
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