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 24 April 2022

Species List for 23/04/2022

 The wind dropped last night but was still a very chilly NE . I ran all five traps and fared a little better than the previous night with 23 moths of  15 species including 3 NFY, one of which was also NFS.

Code

Taxon

Vernacular

Individuals

998

Epiphyas postvittana

Light Brown Apple Moth

1

1851

Eupithecia virgaureata

Golden-rod Pug

1

NFS

1852

Eupithecia abbreviata

Brindled Pug

1

NFY

1862

Gymnoscelis rufifasciata

Double-striped Pug

1

1906

Opisthograptis luteolata

Brimstone Moth

2

2089

Agrotis exclamationis

Heart and Dart

1

NFY

2092

Agrotis puta

Shuttle-shaped Dart

4

2102

Ochropleura plecta

Flame Shoulder

1

2154

Mamestra brassicae

Cabbage Moth

1

2187

Orthosia cerasi

Common Quaker

4

2188

Orthosia incerta

Clouded Drab

1

2190

Orthosia gothica

Hebrew Character

2

2243

Xylocampa areola

Early Grey

1

2306

Phlogophora meticulosa

Angle Shades

1

2425

Colocasia coryli

Nut-tree Tussock

1

 

Heart and Dart


Golden-rod Rug


Brindled Pug

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