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 17 August 2020

Species List for 15/08/2020

Three traps run, all Skinner types. 80W Skinner in  the "woody" corner of the back garden, 15W Actinic in the front garden and 80W No2 (now modified to a basic Skinner) in the Greenhouse garden. Altogether there were 473 moths of about 70 species, with one NFY.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
15 Hepialus sylvina Orange Swift 7
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 2
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 1
658 Carcina quercana 2
873 Blastobasis adustella 7
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 13
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 1
1304 Agriphila straminella 4
1305 Agriphila tristella 30
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 3
1344 Eudonia mercurella 4
1357 Evergestis extimalis 1
1361 Pyrausta aurata 1
1365 Pyrausta despicata 3
1378 Phlyctaenia coronata 1
1395 Udea ferrugalis Rusty-dot Pearl 1
1405 Pleuroptya ruralis Mother of Pearl 5
1439 Trachycera advenella 3
1454 Dioryctria abietella 2
1465 Nephopterix angustella 1   
1470 Euzophera pinguis 8
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 2
1689 Scopula marginepunctata Mullein Wave 1
1690 Scopula imitaria Small Blood-vein 1
1699 Idaea rusticata Least Carpet 2
1707 Idaea seriata Small Dusty Wave 1
1708 Idaea dimidiata Single-dotted Wave 1
1709 Idaea subsericeata Satin Wave 1
1713 Idaea aversata Riband Wave 4
1739 Epirrhoe rivata Wood Carpet 1
1782 Horisme tersata Fern 1
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 5
1835 Eupithecia tripunctaria White-spotted Pug 1
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 2
1867 Aplocera plagiata Treble-bar 1 NFY
1883 Acasis viretata Yellow-barred Brindle 1
1890 Macaria alternata Sharp-angled Peacock 2
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 10
1914 Ennomos fuscantaria Dusky Thorn 2
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 11
2044 Eilema griseola Dingy Footman 7
2047 Eilema complana Scarce Footman 2
2067 Euplagia quadripunctaria Jersey Tiger 6
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 28
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 1
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 1
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 27
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 3
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 7
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 1
2110a Noctua janthina Langmaid's Yellow Underwing 2
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 18
2123 Diarsia rubi Small Square-spot 1
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 36
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 8
2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 2
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 2
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 68
2289 Acronicta rumicis Knot Grass 3
2291 Craniophora ligustri Coronet 2
2292 Cryphia algae Tree-lichen Beauty 4
2295 Cryphia muralis Marbled Green 3
2297 Amphipyra pyramidea Copper Underwing 1
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 4
2343x Mesapamea secalis agg. Common Rustic agg. 7
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 41
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 32
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 3
2428 Chrysodeixis chalcites Golden Twin-spot 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 2
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