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.


Wednesday 2 September 2020

Species List for 01/09/2020

A modest total of  195 moths of 30 species, the temperature dropped to 9 deg over night, although it felt even colder.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
15 Hepialus sylvina Orange Swift 1
647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella Brown House Moth 1
648 Endrosis sarcitrella White-shouldered House Moth 1
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 11
1305 Agriphila tristella 11
1309 Agriphila geniculea 13
1405 Pleuroptya ruralis Mother of Pearl 1
1408 Palpita vitrealis 1
1707 Idaea seriata Small Dusty Wave 2
1742 Camptogramma bilineata Yellow Shell 1
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 1
1867 Aplocera plagiata Treble-bar 1
1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 3
1914 Ennomos fuscantaria Dusky Thorn 5
1961 Campaea margaritata Light Emerald 5
2047 Eilema complana Scarce Footman 1
2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 1
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 19
2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 8
2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 2   
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 18
2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 8
2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 3
2269 Atethmia centrago Centre-barred Sallow 5
2289 Acronicta rumicis Knot Grass 1
2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 52
2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 14
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1
2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1
2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 3
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