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.


Saturday, 20 June 2020

Species List for 19/06/2020

A drop in the number of species to 33 but 172 moths, half of which were Heart and Clubs or Heart and Darts, One NFY, the strange Leopard Moth.

161 Zeuzera pyrina Leopard Moth 1 NFY
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
951 Aethes beatricella 2
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 3
1002 Lozotaenia forsterana 1
1063 Celypha striana 1
1076 Celypha lacunana 1
1083 Hedya nubiferana Marbled Orchard Tortrix 2
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 8
1302 Crambus perlella 1
1408 Palpita vitrealis 2
1758 Eulithis pyraliata Barred Straw 1
1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 1
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 2
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 5
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 1   
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 41
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 43
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 4
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 3
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 4
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 11
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 3
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 1
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 7
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 4
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 12
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1
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