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, 13 October 2021

Species List for 12/10/2021

 After a cold night with the temperature dropping as low as 6 deg C it wasn't a great surprise that the number of moths had dropped, down to a total of 50 moths of 18 species. The surprise was a third Radford's Flame Shoulder. There was also one NFY, a Feathered Thorn, appearing on a relatively early date.

Code

Taxon

Vernacular

Individuals

874

Blastobasis lacticolella

1

998

Epiphyas postvittana

Light Brown Apple Moth

2

1041

Acleris sparsana

1

1764

Chloroclysta truncata

Common Marbled Carpet

1

1923

Colotois pennaria

Feathered Thorn

1

NFY

2102a

Ochropleura leucogaster

Radford's Flame Shoulder

1

2107

Noctua pronuba

Large Yellow Underwing

8

2109

Noctua comes

Lesser Yellow Underwing

1

2126

Xestia c-nigrum

Setaceous Hebrew Character

2

2134

Xestia xanthographa

Square-spot Rustic

1

2195

Mythimna vitellina

Delicate

1

2232

Aporophyla nigra

Black Rustic

2

2240

Lithophane leautieri

Blair's Shoulder-knot

1

2255

Polymixis lichenea

Feathered Ranunculus

6

2267

Agrochola lychnidis

Beaded Chestnut

4

2270

Omphaloscelis lunosa

Lunar Underwing

10

2272

Xanthia aurago

Barred Sallow

2

2306

Phlogophora meticulosa

Angle Shades

5

 

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