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, 11 May 2022

Species List for 10/05/2022

A comparatively quiet night with 25 moths of 17 species, but the one NFY was interesting. A Portland Ribbon Wave was a surprise. This is the third record here, the first two, 22/8/16 and 4//9/20 were appropriate dates for migrants, but I wonder if May 10th might indicate breeding near by?

Code

Taxon

Vernacular

Individuals

647

Hofmannophila pseudospretella

Brown House Moth

2

998

Epiphyas postvittana

Light Brown Apple Moth

5

1714

Idaea degeneraria

Portland Ribbon Wave

1

NFY

1724

Xanthorhoe spadicearia

Red Twin-spot Carpet

1

1834

Eupithecia vulgata

Common Pug

1

1835

Eupithecia tripunctaria

White-spotted Pug

1

1862

Gymnoscelis rufifasciata

Double-striped Pug

1

1906

Opisthograptis luteolata

Brimstone Moth

4

1936

Menophra abruptaria

Waved Umber

1

2060

Spilosoma lubricipeda

White Ermine

1

2089

Agrotis exclamationis

Heart and Dart

1

2092

Agrotis puta

Shuttle-shaped Dart

1

2102

Ochropleura plecta

Flame Shoulder

1

2187

Orthosia cerasi

Common Quaker

1

2380

Charanyca trigrammica

Treble Lines

1

2384

Hoplodrina ambigua

Vine's Rustic

1

2389

Paradrina clavipalpis

Pale Mottled Willow

1

 



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