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.


Tuesday, 18 August 2020

Species List for 17/08/2020

A much quieter night.All five traps produced 369 moths of 46 species.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
15 Hepialus sylvina Orange Swift 2
464 Plutella xylostella Diamond-back Moth 1
648 Endrosis sarcitrella White-shouldered House Moth 1
873 Blastobasis adustella 4
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 9
1304 Agriphila straminella 2
1305 Agriphila tristella 12
1344 Eudonia mercurella 2
1356 Evergestis forficalis Garden Pebble 1
1395 Udea ferrugalis Rusty-dot Pearl 1
1424 Endotricha flammealis 1
1438 Trachycera suavella 1
1439 Trachycera advenella 2
1497 Amblyptilia acanthadactyla 1
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
1707 Idaea seriata Small Dusty Wave 1
1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 1
1830 Eupithecia absinthiata Wormwood Pug 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 3
2000 Notodonta dromedarius Iron Prominent 1   
2003 Notodonta ziczac Pebble Prominent 1
2057 Arctia caja Garden Tiger 1
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 1
2067 Euplagia quadripunctaria Jersey Tiger 2
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 41
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 19
2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 2
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 2
2110a Noctua janthina Langmaid's Yellow Underwing 1
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 27
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 51
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 6
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 1
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 5
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 33
2289 Acronicta rumicis Knot Grass 3
2292 Cryphia algae Tree-lichen Beauty 1
2297 Amphipyra pyramidea Copper Underwing 1
2318 Cosmia trapezina Dun-bar 2
2343x Mesapamea secalis agg. Common Rustic agg. 6
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 29
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 48
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1
2434 Diachrysia chrysitis Burnished Brass 2
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 33
2450 Abrostola tripartita Spectacle 2
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