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 1 November 2022

Species List for 31/10/2022

Sometime you get things wrong, even when the weather forecast has warned you what is about to come. This was one of those occasions and I spent some time gathering up bits of my traps, and one bulb had smashed in the wind. Gusts reached 61 mph. Nevertheless there were some moths that survived the battering and were in the turned over traps. In total there were 16 moths of  ten species including one NFY, a December Moth.

Code

Taxon

Vernacular

Individuals


63.048

Palpita vitrealis


2


63.052

Nomophila noctuella

Rush Veneer

1


63.054

Cydalima perspectalis

Box-tree Moth

2


66.001

Poecilocampa populi

December Moth

1

NFY

73.113

Phlogophora meticulosa

Angle Shades

2


73.186

Agrochola lychnidis

Beaded Chestnut

1


73.319

Agrotis segetum

Turnip Moth

1


73.325

Agrotis puta

Shuttle-shaped Dart

1


73.327

Agrotis ipsilon

Dark Sword-grass

1


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