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.


Tuesday 25 October 2022

Species List for 24/10/2022

After the exciting catch of two days ago there was a day off, due to the extreme weather over night. This has had a knock on affect and last nights numbers were well down. Once again Scarce Bordered Straws  featured in what looks to be a very good year for them with 51 so far. In total last night there were 62  moths of 16 species.

Code

Taxon

Vernacular

Individuals

49.039

Epiphyas postvittana

Light Brown Apple Moth

8

63.031

Udea ferrugalis

Rusty-dot Pearl

4

63.052

Nomophila noctuella

Rush Veneer

7

73.068

Allophyes oxyacanthae

Green-brindled Crescent

2

73.076

Helicoverpa armigera

Scarce Bordered Straw

5

73.092

Caradrina morpheus

Mottled Rustic

1

73.134

Rhizedra lutosa

Large Wainscot

2

73.186

Agrochola lychnidis

Beaded Chestnut

4

73.190

Agrochola macilenta

Yellow-line Quaker

1

73.195

Conistra ligula

Dark Chestnut

2

73.235

Polymixis lichenea

Feathered Ranunculus

1

73.297

Mythimna albipuncta

White-point

6

73.319

Agrotis segetum

Turnip Moth

1

73.327

Agrotis ipsilon

Dark Sword-grass

1

73.342

Noctua pronuba

Large Yellow Underwing

14

73.359

Xestia c-nigrum

Setaceous Hebrew Character

3
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