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, 26 September 2026

Species List for 25/09/2026

 Four traps, a 125W Robinson in the Back Garden, a 125W MV Robinson in the Pond Garden, a 15W Actinic in the Front Garden, and a 80W MV Skinner in the Greenhouse Garden. A warmish ight, mintempmaround 16 deg C and a NW wing of 6-10 mph. I had got through three traps and was near then end of the 4th, the back garden Robinson, thinking that it was so poor that it might be time to reduce the number of traps when I spied a carpet on one of the last egg boxes. I knew I didn't recognise it and to a quick photo before potting it. A check with ObsID and UKmoths on line confirmed it was a Banded Pine Carpet. Checking Kent Moths Web site showed only six previous records on there. The species was first recorded in the UK in Sussex in 2014. 

Code

Taxon

Vernacular

Individuals


18.001

Plutella xylostella

Diamond-back Moth

1


35.118

Scrobipalpa ocellatella

Beet Moth

10


45.044

Emmelina monodactyla

Common Plume

1


49.013

Archips podana

Large Fruit-tree Tortrix

1


49.039

Epiphyas postvittana

Light Brown Apple Moth

6


62.032

Nephopterix angustella


1


62.036

Acrobasis suavella


1


62.054

Homoeosoma sinuella


5


63.031

Udea ferrugalis

Rusty-dot Pearl

6


63.054

Cydalima perspectalis

Box-tree Moth

2


63.069

Eudonia angustea


2


70.008

Idaea seriata

Small Dusty Wave

1


70.097

Dysstroma truncata

Common Marbled Carpet

2


70.141

Gymnoscelis rufifasciata

Double-striped Pug

1


70.258

Peribatodes rhomboidaria

Willow Beauty

1


70.2841

Pungeleria capreolaria

Banded Pine Carpet

1

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73.087

Spodoptera exigua

Small Mottled Willow

10


73.092

Caradrina morpheus

Mottled Rustic

1


73.093

Caradrina kadenii

Clancy's Rustic

2


73.095

Caradrina clavipalpis

Pale Mottled Willow

1


73.099

Hoplodrina ambigua

Vine's Rustic

1


73.131

Luperina testacea

Flounced Rustic

2


73.193

Anchoscelis lunosa

Lunar Underwing

12


73.235

Polymixis lichenea

Feathered Ranunculus

7


73.267

Lacanobia oleracea

Bright-line Brown-eye

1


73.295

Mythimna vitellina

Delicate

1


73.300

Mythimna l-album

L-album Wainscot

2


73.307

Peridroma saucia

Pearly Underwing

1


73.319

Agrotis segetum

Turnip Moth

3


73.325

Agrotis puta

Shuttle-shaped Dart

2


73.342

Noctua pronuba

Large Yellow Underwing

83


73.343

Noctua fimbriata

Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

2


73.345

Noctua comes

Lesser Yellow Underwing

1


73.357

Xestia xanthographa

Square-spot Rustic

8


73.359

Xestia c-nigrum

Setaceous Hebrew Character

1


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