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.


Saturday 17 September 2022

Species List for 16/09/2022

 I've looked through my data going back to 2009 and this is the lowest number of moths I've caught on any 16th Sept, although 2013  and 2009 did come close. In one year there were over 400 and only these three were less than 100. 24 moths of 11 species was all there were.

Code

Taxon

Vernacular

Individuals


73.095

Caradrina clavipalpis

Pale Mottled Willow

1


73.131

Luperina testacea

Flounced Rustic

4


73.134

Rhizedra lutosa

Large Wainscot

1


73.193

Omphaloscelis lunosa

Lunar Underwing

2


73.219

Atethmia centrago

Centre-barred Sallow

1


73.300

Mythimna l-album

L-album Wainscot

1


73.325

Agrotis puta

Shuttle-shaped Dart

1


73.342

Noctua pronuba

Large Yellow Underwing

5


73.345

Noctua comes

Lesser Yellow Underwing

5


73.357

Xestia xanthographa

Square-spot Rustic

1


73.359

Xestia c-nigrum

Setaceous Hebrew Character

2


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