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.


Friday, 14 July 2023

Traps on 13/7/2023

 With the fifth trap back in action I had a look at the individual performances. It wasn't a great night, and as is often the case the Actinic light seemed most affected. The Back Garden Robinson had the widest sight lines and usually has the most moth, but not necessarily the most intweresting. Perhaps when a "big night" comes along there will be a more interesting set of numbers 

Trap

    Individuals

           No of Species

80W MV1 Skinner “Woodland Corner”

50

25

80W MV2 Skinner Greenhouse Garden

82

36

Actinic light, 15W Front Garden

27

20

Robinson MV Trap (125W) Back Garden

114

32

Robinson MV Trap (125W) Pond Garden

66

27

Total

339



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