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, 7 March 2026

Species List for 25/02/2026

Mothing for 2025 finished for me at the end of August (27th) when I then went for two months ro Australia, not mothing but Birding and Mammal and Reptile watching. I returned at the end of October, to be greeted with some of the wettest  most dismal weather imaginable. Coupled with the awful weather extending into January and February and a couple of  physical problems, due to my penchant in old age for falling over, I didn't get started this year until February 25th.  At the moment I am using two traps, a 125W MV Robinson in the Back Garden and an 80W  MV Robinson in the Pond Garden. Hopefully I will add photos for each NFY species as we go along. I will catch up in the near future.

There were 16 moths of five species.

Code

Taxon

Vernacular

Individuals


70.251

Biston strataria

Oak Beauty

2

nfy

73.242

Orthosia incerta

Clouded Drab

1

nfy

73.244

Orthosia cerasi

Common Quaker

8

nfy

73.249

Orthosia gothica

Hebrew Character

4

nfy

73.250

Anorthoa munda

Twin-spotted Quaker

1

nfy

Common Quaker

Oak Beauty

 

Twin-spot Quaker

Clouded Drab

Hebrew Character

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