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.


Sunday 10 October 2021

Species List for 09/10/2021

A foggy damp night, so i wasn't surprised in the drop in numbers ans a species. there were 139 moths of 23 species and two NFY. The Grey Shoulder-knot was my fifth, and the third in autumn, the two others were in spring, as it is a moth that over-winters as an adult. The Radford's Flame Shoulder is the second here, the first was on the 23rd October last year.

873

Blastobasis adustella

1

998

Epiphyas postvittana

Light Brown Apple Moth

3

1745

Larentia clavaria

Mallow

1

1764

Chloroclysta truncata

Common Marbled Carpet

5

1767

Thera firmata

Pine Carpet

1

2051

Lithosia quadra

Four-spotted Footman

1

2102a

Ochropleura leucogaster

Radford's Flame Shoulder

1

NFY

2107

Noctua pronuba

Large Yellow Underwing

38

2109

Noctua comes

Lesser Yellow Underwing

2

2117

Eugnorisma glareosa

Autumnal Rustic

1

2126

Xestia c-nigrum

Setaceous Hebrew Character

11

2195

Mythimna vitellina

Delicate

6

2232

Aporophyla nigra

Black Rustic

2

2237

Lithophane ornitopus

Grey Shoulder-knot

1

NFY

2240

Lithophane leautieri

Blair's Shoulder-knot

1

2247

Dichonia aprilina

Merveille du Jour

1

2255

Polymixis lichenea

Feathered Ranunculus

8

2267

Agrochola lychnidis

Beaded Chestnut

4

2270

Omphaloscelis lunosa

Lunar Underwing

37

2272

Xanthia aurago

BBarred Sallow

4

 

2306

Phlogophora meticulosa

Angle Shades

7

2387a

Platyperigea kadenii

Clancy's Rustic

2

2441

Autographa gamma

Silver Y

1

.
Grey Shoulder-knot


Radford's flame shoulder

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