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, 6 July 2020

Species List for 05/07/2020

After another night off, the weather was awful, I did put the traps out, but still a very disappointing catch. 102 moths of 29 species.
Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 1
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 9
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 1
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 1
1669 Hemithea aestivaria Common Emerald 1
1699 Idaea rusticata Least Carpet 1
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 1
1758 Eulithis pyraliata Barred Straw 1
1771a Thera cupressata Cypress Carpet 1
1922 Ourapteryx sambucaria Swallow-tailed Moth 1
1981 Laothoe populi Poplar Hawk-moth 1
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 4
1994 Phalera bucephala Buff-tip 2
2026 Orgyia antiqua Vapourer 1
2029 Euproctis chrysorrhoea Brown-tail 1
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 1
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 8
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 24
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 7   
2110a Noctua janthina Langmaid's Yellow Underwing 1
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 1
2193 Mythimna ferrago Clay 1
2198 Mythimna impura Smoky Wainscot 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 5
2343x Mesapamea secalis agg. Common Rustic agg. 11
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 8
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 3
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 3
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