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.


Thursday 23 July 2020

Species List for 21/07/2020

It seemed a very ordinary night, albeit with one of my favourite moths NFY. Almost the last moths from the last trap had me puzzled, and I posted a picture on Kent Moths FB page, with my first thoughts of an ID. Thanks to Tony Rouse and Dave Shenton, the correct ID was found |(I was close but no cigar) Altogether there were 269 moths of about 64 species with two NFY.

This is the mystery moth.
Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
173 Apoda limacodes Festoon 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 2
1048 Acleris variegana Garden Rose Tortrix 1
1063 Celypha striana 2
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 5
1294 Crambus pascuella 2
1302 Crambus perlella 1
1304 Agriphila straminella 4
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 1
1344 Eudonia mercurella 2
1376 Eurrhypara hortulata Small Magpie 1
1378 Phlyctaenia coronata 2
1409a Diaphania perspectalis Boxworm 1
1424 Endotricha flammealis 11
1470 Euzophera pinguis 1
1669 Hemithea aestivaria Common Emerald 1
1690 Scopula imitaria Small Blood-vein 3
1699 Idaea rusticata Least Carpet 5
1705 Idaea fuscovenosa Dwarf Cream Wave 2
1708 Idaea dimidiata Single-dotted Wave 2   
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 14
1912 Ennomos quercinaria August Thorn 1 NFY
1917 Selenia dentaria Early Thorn 1
1921 Crocallis elinguaria Scalloped Oak 3
1922 Ourapteryx sambucaria Swallow-tailed Moth 1
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 3
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
1941 Alcis repandata Mottled Beauty 1
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 1
1981 Laothoe populi Poplar Hawk-moth 2
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 2
2029 Euproctis chrysorrhoea Brown-tail 1
2030 Euproctis similis Yellow-tail 2
2033 Lymantria monacha Black Arches 1 NFY
2050 Eilema lurideola Common Footman 50
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 2
2064 Phragmatobia fuliginosa Ruby Tiger 2
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 3
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 2
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 1
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 5
2098 Axylia putris Flame 2
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 3
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 2
2110a Noctua janthina Langmaid's Yellow Underwing 1
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 4
2128 Xestia triangulum Double Square-spot 1
2145 Discestra trifolii Nutmeg 1
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 1
2164 Hecatera bicolorata Broad-barred White 1
2193 Mythimna ferrago Clay 3
2198 Mythimna impura Smoky Wainscot 3
2289 Acronicta rumicis Knot Grass 1
2291 Craniophora ligustri Coronet 1
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 12
2322 Apamea lithoxylaea Light Arches 1
2343x Mesapamea secalis agg. Common Rustic agg. 58
2352 Eremobia ochroleuca Dusky Sallow 1
2381 Hoplodrina alsines Uncertain 31
2382 Hoplodrina blanda Rustic 7
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 2
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 2
2489 Zanclognatha tarsipennalis Fan-foot 1
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 Black Arches

My initial ID was an aberrant Dusky Thorn, but Tony Rouse suggested August Thorn and Dave Shelton agreed and found a very similar individual on a erman Site'

August Thorn 

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