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, 21 September 2021

Species List for 20/09/2021

A cold clear night heralded a massive drop in numbers with just 137 moths of 31 species. There were two NFY, a beautiful Sallow and a Bulrush Wainscot, the fifth I've caught here.

Code

Taxon

Vernacular

Individuals

998

Epiphyas postvittana

Light Brown Apple Moth

4

1048

Acleris variegana

Garden Rose Tortrix

1

1342

Eudonia angustea

1

1764

Chloroclysta truncata

Common Marbled Carpet

6

1914

Ennomos fuscantaria

Dusky Thorn

4

1937

Peribatodes rhomboidaria

Willow Beauty

3

1961

Campaea margaritata

Light Emerald

3

2107

Noctua pronuba

Large Yellow Underwing

21

2109

Noctua comes

Lesser Yellow Underwing

7

2111

Noctua janthe

Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

1

2123

Diarsia rubi

Small Square-spot

1

2126

Xestia c-nigrum

Setaceous Hebrew Character

26

2134

Xestia xanthographa

Square-spot Rustic

14

2160

Lacanobia oleracea

Bright-line Brown-eye

1

2194

Mythimna albipuncta

White-point

4

2199

Mythimna pallens

Common Wainscot

4

2202

Mythimna l-album

L-album Wainscot

1

2255

Polymixis lichenea

Feathered Ranunculus

1

2269

Atethmia centrago

Centre-barred Sallow

3

2270

Omphaloscelis lunosa

Lunar Underwing

5

 

2274

Xanthia icteritia

Sallow

1

NFY

2284x

Acronicta tridens/psi

Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger

1

2297

Amphipyra pyramidea

Copper Underwing

2

2306

Phlogophora meticulosa

Angle Shades

3

2353

Luperina testacea

Flounced Rustic

5

2369

Nonagria typhae

Bulrush Wainscot

1

NFY

2384

Hoplodrina ambigua

Vine's Rustic

4

2389

Paradrina clavipalpis

Pale Mottled Willow

1

2441

Autographa gamma

Silver Y

1

2477

Hypena proboscidalis

Snout

7
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