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 25 September 2022

Species List for 24/09/2022

 A much quieter night, with a fair amount of rain. Just 87 moths of 23 species. Although there was no NFY an odd record of an Orange Footman. My previous latest record was Jul 13th and even that was one of only three July records out of 125. It was either an unusual second generation or an unexpected migrant.

Code

Taxon

Vernacular

Individuals


63.031

Udea ferrugalis

Rusty-dot Pearl

2


63.048

Palpita vitrealis


1


63.054

Cydalima perspectalis

Box-tree Moth

7


63.095

Agriphila geniculea


1


70.049

Xanthorhoe fluctuata

Garden Carpet

1


70.097

Dysstroma truncata

Common Marbled Carpet

1


70.234

Ennomos alniaria

Canary-shouldered Thorn

1


73.27

Mamestra brassicae

Cabbage Moth

1


72.049

Eilema sororcula

Orange Footman

1


73.076

Helicoverpa armigera

Scarce Bordered Straw

1


73.095

Caradrina clavipalpis

Pale Mottled Willow

1


73.113

Phlogophora meticulosa

Angle Shades

1


73.131

Luperina testacea

Flounced Rustic

1


73.186

Agrochola lychnidis

Beaded Chestnut

2


73.193

Omphaloscelis lunosa

Lunar Underwing

13


73.233

Aporophyla nigra

Black Rustic

1


73.319

Agrotis segetum

Turnip Moth

2


73.325

Agrotis puta

Shuttle-shaped Dart

5


73.342

Noctua pronuba

Large Yellow Underwing

24


73.343

Noctua fimbriata

Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

4


73.345

Noctua comes

Lesser Yellow Underwing

4

73.357

Xestia xanthographa

Square-spot Rustic

4


73.359

Xestia c-nigrum

Setaceous Hebrew Character

8



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