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, 29 May 2020

Species List for 28/05/2020

Despite some warm temperatures on other parts the northerly airflow here reduced the night temperature to around 10 deg C. One NFY and another Prays sp,, one of the darker examples, a possible P. ruficeps.
Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 1
0448a Prays ruficeps 1
717 Ethmia terminella 1 NFY
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 1
1333 Scoparia pyralella 1
1689 Scopula marginepunctata Mullein Wave 1
1738 Epirrhoe alternata Common Carpet 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 1
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 1
1936 Menophra abruptaria Waved Umber 1
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 1
1992 Deilephila porcellus Small Elephant Hawk-moth 2
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 2
2003 Notodonta ziczac Pebble Prominent 1
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 1   
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 2
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 2
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 18   
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 4
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 1
2334 Apamea sordens Rustic Shoulder-knot 3
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 2
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 12
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 1
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 2

 Prays ruficeps/fraxinella

 Scoparia pyralella

Ethmia terminella
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