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.


Saturday, 24 October 2020

Species List for 23/10/2020

 Not a great number of moths with 84 of just 13 species, but there was a NFS with a  Radford's Flame Shoulder, a Gem, sadly rather tatty, and an Oak Rustic, both NFY, a Scarce Bordered Straw was only the third this year.

Code

Taxon

Vernacular

Individuals

464

Plutella xylostella

Diamond-back Moth

2

1720

Orthonama obstipata

Gem

1

NFY

2087

Agrotis segetum

Turnip Moth

4

2102a

Ochropleura leucogaster

Radford's Flame Shoulder

1

NFS

2107

Noctua pronuba

Large Yellow Underwing

54

2194

Mythimna albipuncta

White-point

2

2232

Aporophyla nigra

Black Rustic

2

2246a

Dryobota labecula

Oak Rustic

1

NFY

2255

Polymixis lichenea

Feathered Ranunculus

5

2259

Conistra ligula

Dark Chestnut

1

2267

Agrochola lychnidis

Beaded Chestnut

9

2375

Rhizedra lutosa

Large Wainscot

1

2400

Helicoverpa armigera

Scarce Bordered Straw

1

 .

Rusty Dot Pearl

 

,Dark Chestnut.

 

,Oak Rustic

 

Scarce Bordered Straw

 

Radford's Flame Shoulder,

 

Gem

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