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, 6 October 2020

Species List for 05/10/2020

 After three days when the continuous high winds and frequent rain dampened my enthusiasm enough tto make me take a break I put all five traps out last night. Not an overwhelming success, but four migrant species made it worthwhile, although I'd rather have had the migrant that visited Samphire Hoe, a Death's-head Hawk-moth. In total I had 57 moths of 13 species.

Code

Taxon

Vernacular

Individuals

994

Clepsis consimilana

1

1395

Udea ferrugalis

Rusty-dot Pearl

3

1398

Nomophila noctuella

Rush Veneer

1

2087

Agrotis segetum

Turnip Moth

1

2107

Noctua pronuba

Large Yellow Underwing

5

2109

Noctua comes

Lesser Yellow Underwing

2

2134

Xestia xanthographa

Square-spot Rustic

3

2195

Mythimna vitellina

Delicate

1

2255

Polymixis lichenea

Feathered Ranunculus

4

2267

Agrochola lychnidis

Beaded Chestnut

11

2270

Omphaloscelis lunosa

Lunar Underwing

22

2389

Paradrina clavipalpis

Pale Mottled Willow

1

2441

Autographa gamma

Silver Y

2

 

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