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, 8 June 2020

Species List for 07/06/2020

A little better with 58 moths of 27 species and 3 NFY.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 2
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 1
1033 Tortrix viridana Green Oak Tortrix 1
1063 Celypha striana 6
1082 Hedya pruniana Plum Tortrix 1
1083 Hedya nubiferana Marbled Orchard Tortrix 1
1174 Epiblema cynosbatella 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 1
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
1823 Eupithecia venosata Netted Pug 1
1840 Eupithecia subumbrata Shaded Pug 1 NFY
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 1
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 1
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 2
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 2
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 1
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 1
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 18
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 1
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1   
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 1
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 7
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 1
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 1
2422 Pseudoips prasinana Green Silver-lines 1 NFY
2450 Abrostola tripartita Spectacle 1
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 1 NFY
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 Shaded Pug

Green Silver-lines 

Snout

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