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, 27 August 2020

Species List for 26/08/2020

With the wind gusting up to 58 mph, well past the blow the moth traps to bits force, I didn't moth on the 26th. Last night was surprisingly calm and quite warm.  648 moths of 54 species with Setaceous Hebrew Character numbers dominating. Two NFY were both interesting, a Centre-barred Sallow was the earliest I've caught here and an Obscure Wainscot, my fourth was on an exceptionally late date.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
15 Hepialus sylvina Orange Swift 2
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 2
873 Blastobasis adustella 2
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 43
1048 Acleris variegana Garden Rose Tortrix 1
1288 Alucita hexadactyla Twenty-plume Moth 1
1304 Agriphila straminella 4
1305 Agriphila tristella 22
1309 Agriphila geniculea 3
1356 Evergestis forficalis Garden Pebble 1
1365 Pyrausta despicata 3
1395 Udea ferrugalis Rusty-dot Pearl 2
1398 Nomophila noctuella Rush Veneer 3
1408 Palpita vitrealis 2
1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 1
1439 Trachycera advenella 1
1470 Euzophera pinguis 1
1497 Amblyptilia acanthadactyla 1
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 2
1707 Idaea seriata Small Dusty Wave 4   
1742 Camptogramma bilineata Yellow Shell 3
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 1
1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 2
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1862 Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Double-striped Pug 6
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 8
1914 Ennomos fuscantaria Dusky Thorn 11
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 2
1961 Campaea margaritata Light Emerald 4
2044 Eilema griseola Dingy Footman 1
2067 Euplagia quadripunctaria Jersey Tiger 3
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 5
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 21
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 5
2123 Diarsia rubi Small Square-spot 2
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 198
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 20
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 1
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 2
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 58
2204 Mythimna obsoleta Obscure Wainscot 1 NFY
2269 Atethmia centrago Centre-barred Sallow 1 NFY
2284x Acronicta tridens/psi Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger 1
2292 Cryphia algae Tree-lichen Beauty 1
2295 Cryphia muralis Marbled Green 1
2297 Amphipyra pyramidea Copper Underwing 2
2306 Phlogophora meticulosa Angle Shades 6
2343x Mesapamea secalis agg. Common Rustic agg. 3
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 73
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 93
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 7
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 2
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 1
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 Obscure Wainscot

 Obscure Wainscot
 Centre-barred Sallow

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