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, 10 November 2021

Species List for 09/11/2021

 A mild, damp, overcast night brought a few more moths, with 22 of 14 species. A Red-line Quaker was new for the year and there were four species of migrants.

Code

Taxon

Vernacular

Individuals

998

Epiphyas postvittana

Light Brown Apple Moth

2

1041

Acleris sparsana

1

1395

Udea ferrugalis

Rusty-dot Pearl

1

1795x

Epirrita dilutata agg.

November Moth agg.

1

1923

Colotois pennaria

Feathered Thorn

1

2091

Agrotis ipsilon

Dark Sword-grass

2

2107

Noctua pronuba

Large Yellow Underwing

1

2109

Noctua comes

Lesser Yellow Underwing

1

2126

Xestia c-nigrum

Setaceous Hebrew Character

1

2263

Agrochola lota

Red-line Quaker

1

NFY

2267

Agrochola lychnidis

Beaded Chestnut

1

2306

Phlogophora meticulosa

Angle Shades

6

2400

Helicoverpa armigera

Scarce Bordered Straw

1

2441

Autographa gamma

Silver Y

2
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