Species List for 20/08/2026

Just two traps, a 125W Robinson in the Back Garden, a 125W MV Robinson in the Pond Garden. The wind had become more strong and the overnight forecast predicted a high chance of rain. The wind had dropped by the morning and significant rain did not arrive. However the back garden Robinson performed well and the commoner species were well supplemented. There were 449 moths of 59 species with one, very important NFY, a small Ranunculus. In 1997 (I think that's the right year), a message that Ann Lawson and her partner had caught a moth, that according to "Skinner" was extinct in the UK. I went and saw it and Andy explained the workings of a moth trap and I was hooked. I did catch six  Small Ranunculus in Crayford, three in 2099 and three in 2000. Since I have been in St Margaret's I have caught, just one in July 2016, so this one is long overdue. 

Code	Taxon	Vernacular	Individuals
03.001	Triodia sylvina	Orange Swift	5
28.024	Tachystola acroxantha		1
31.001	Carcina quercana		1
35.118	Scrobipalpa ocellatella	Beet Moth	1
45.044	Emmelina monodactyla	Common Plume	3
49.013	Archips podana	Large Fruit-tree Tortrix	1
49.039	Epiphyas postvittana	Light Brown Apple Moth	1
49.161	Celypha striana		1
49.166	Celypha lacunana		1
49.261	Crocidosema plebejana		1
49.341	Cydia splendana		3
49.357	Grapholita funebrana	Plum Fruit Moth	1
62.021	Oncocera semirubella		2
62.035	Acrobasis advenella		1
62.048	Euzophera pinguis		1
63.018	Anania coronata		1
63.028	Ostrinia nubilalis	European Corn-borer	5
63.031	Udea ferrugalis	Rusty-dot Pearl	4
63.052	Nomophila noctuella	Rush Veneer	18
63.054	Cydalima perspectalis	Box-tree Moth	2
63.059	Evergestis limbata		1
63.089	Agriphila tristella		26
63.095	Agriphila geniculea		2
65.007	Cilix glaucata	Chinese Character	1
70.029	Timandra comae	Blood-Vein	1
70.141	Gymnoscelis rufifasciata	Double-striped Pug	1
70.173	Eupithecia centaureata	Lime-speck Pug	3
70.200	Acasis viretata	Yellow-barred Brindle	3
70.226	Opisthograptis luteolata	Brimstone Moth	1
70.234	Ennomos alniaria	Canary-shouldered Thorn	1
70.235	Ennomos fuscantaria	Dusky Thorn	2
71.022	Ptilodon cucullina	Maple Prominent	1
72.003	Hypena proboscidalis	Snout	1
73.001	Abrostola tripartita	Spectacle	1
73.015	Autographa gamma	Silver Y	3
73.037	Acronicta tridens/psi	Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger	1
73.076	Helicoverpa armigera	Scarce Bordered Straw	3
73.087	Spodoptera exigua	Small Mottled Willow	28
73.092	Caradrina morpheus	Mottled Rustic	2
73.095	Caradrina clavipalpis	Pale Mottled Willow	2
73.099	Hoplodrina ambigua	Vine's Rustic	53
73.113	Phlogophora meticulosa	Angle Shades	1
73.131	Luperina testacea	Flounced Rustic	71
73.169	Mesapamea secalis agg.	Common Rustic agg.	2
73.267	Lacanobia oleracea	Bright-line Brown-eye	9
73.274	Mamestra brassicae	Cabbage Moth	1
73.276	Sideridis rivularis	Campion	1
73.280	Hecatera dysodea	Small Ranunculus	1	nfy
73.291	Mythimna pallens	Common Wainscot	14
73.295	Mythimna vitellina	Delicate	11
73.297	Mythimna albipuncta	White-point	1
73.317	Agrotis exclamationis	Heart and Dart	4
73.319	Agrotis segetum	Turnip Moth	8
73.325	Agrotis puta	Shuttle-shaped Dart	4
73.329	Ochropleura plecta	Flame Shoulder	4
73.342	Noctua pronuba	Large Yellow Underwing	9
73.348	Noctua janthe	Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing	40
73.357	Xestia xanthographa	Square-spot Rustic	7
73.359	Xestia c-nigrum	Setaceous Hebrew Character	70

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Species List for 23/7/2016

Back in the days I was growing up we had no TV, computers or phones, and in the summer holidays we used to spend our time outdoors. As well as various adventure games with Russell Pierce we used to collect the local wild life, grasshoppers, butterflies etc, and watch the birds in the area. For me it became a passion, but for many years one of the missing groups, apart from finding Privet-hawk caterpillars and Woolly Bears, Garden Tiger Caterpillars. That was moths. Then around 1996 Ann Lawson and Andrew Duff did something amazing. In their garden, using a home made trap they caught a moth that had been thought to be extirpated from the UK for 30 years. I went to see this little beauty and that started me on the new hobby of Mothing. In Crayford I caught six Small Ranunculus, and of course have slide pictures of them all. We moved here in 2000 and although I had caught around 445 species of macro moths in the garden, Small Ranunculus didn't feature. You can imaging my delight then when my eyes alighted om a small Noctuid and immediately thought "that looks like a Small Ranunculus and so it proved.

Code	Taxon	Vernacular	Individuals
0	Cnephasia sp.	Cnephasia species	2
290	Caloptilia semifascia		1
464	Plutella xylostella	Diamond-back Moth	29
647	Hofmannophila pseudospretella	Brown House Moth	6
658	Carcina quercana		1
861	Acompsia schmidtiellus		1
873	Blastobasis adustella		3
874	Blastobasis lacticolella		2
937	Agapeta hamana		1
998	Epiphyas postvittana	Light Brown Apple Moth	7
1036	Acleris forsskaleana		1
1048	Acleris variegana	Garden Rose Tortrix	2
1063	Celypha striana		11
1293	Chrysoteuchia culmella	Garden Grass-veneer	7
1302	Crambus perlella		3
1304	Agriphila straminella		1
1344	Eudonia mercurella		2
1361	Pyrausta aurata		1
1375	Ostrinia nubilalis	European Corn Borer	1
1378	Phlyctaenia coronata		3
1417	Pyralis farinalis	Meal Moth	3
1424	Endotricha flammealis		4
1428	Aphomia sociella	Bee Moth	2
1441	Oncocera semirubella		2
1651	Cilix glaucata	Chinese Character	1
1653	Habrosyne pyritoides	Buff Arches	1
1673	Hemistola chrysoprasaria	Small Emerald	1
1690	Scopula imitaria	Small Blood-vein	2
1699	Idaea rusticata atrosignaria	Least Carpet	4
1702	Idaea biselata	Small Fan-footed Wave	7
1708	Idaea dimidiata	Single-dotted Wave	9
1713	Idaea aversata	Riband Wave	22
1758	Eulithis pyraliata	Barred Straw	1
1804	Perizoma bifaciata	Barred Rivulet	2
1830	Eupithecia absinthiata	Wormwood Pug	2
1858	Chloroclystis v-ata	V-Pug	1
1862	Gymnoscelis rufifasciata	Double-striped Pug	1
1884	Abraxas grossulariata	Magpie Moth	1
1917	Selenia dentaria	Early Thorn	1
1921	Crocallis elinguaria	Scalloped Oak	10
1922	Ourapteryx sambucaria	Swallow-tailed Moth	2
1931	Biston betularia	Peppered Moth	1
1937	Peribatodes rhomboidaria	Willow Beauty	1
1941	Alcis repandata	Mottled Beauty	1
1991	Deilephila elpenor	Elephant Hawk-moth	2
2029	Euproctis chrysorrhoea	Brown-tail	1
2050	Eilema lurideola	Common Footman	16
2061	Spilosoma luteum	Buff Ermine	9
2064	Phragmatobia fuliginosa	Ruby Tiger	1
2089	Agrotis exclamationis	Heart and Dart	2
2092	Agrotis puta	Shuttle-shaped Dart	1
2098	Axylia putris	Flame	2
2107	Noctua pronuba	Large Yellow Underwing	8
2109	Noctua comes	Lesser Yellow Underwing	2
2110	Noctua fimbriata	Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing	11
2111	Noctua janthe	Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing	2
2128	Xestia triangulum	Double Square-spot	2
2155	Melanchra persicariae	Dot Moth	6
2165	Hecatera dysodea	Small Ranunculus	1
2193	Mythimna ferrago	Clay	2
2198	Mythimna impura	Smoky Wainscot	2
2284x	Acronicta tridens/psi	Dark Dagger / Grey Dagger	2
2289	Acronicta rumicis	Knot Grass	1
2291	Craniophora ligustri	Coronet	2
2318	Cosmia trapezina	Dun-bar	1
2321	Apamea monoglypha	Dark Arches	9
2322	Apamea lithoxylaea	Light Arches	1
2343	Mesapamea secalis	Common Rustic	6
2381	Hoplodrina alsines	Uncertain	9
2382	Hoplodrina blanda	Rustic	4
2387	Caradrina morpheus	Mottled Rustic	1
2434	Diachrysia chrysitis	Burnished Brass	1
2441	Autographa gamma	Silver Y	1
2489	Zanclognatha tarsipennalis	Fan-foot	1