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.


Sunday 29 March 2015

Species Lists 16/03/2015 to 28/03/2015

Mothing has still been truely dreadful here. I've been running one trap on a daily basis and the results are below.

 

28/03/2015


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
1663 Alsophila aescularia March Moth 1











27/03/2015


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
2190 Orthosia gothica Hebrew Character 5
2243 Xylocampa areola Early Grey 1











26/03/2015


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
2190 Orthosia gothica Hebrew Character 3











25/03/2015


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
2187 Orthosia cerasi Common Quaker 1











24/03/2015


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
2190 Orthosia gothica Hebrew Character 5











23/03/2015


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
2187 Orthosia cerasi Common Quaker 3
2190 Orthosia gothica Hebrew Character 1











22/03/2015


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
2187 Orthosia cerasi Common Quaker 2
2190 Orthosia gothica Hebrew Character 1
2243 Xylocampa areola Early Grey 1











20/03/2015


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
2187 Orthosia cerasi Common Quaker 1











19/03/2015


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
2187 Orthosia cerasi Common Quaker 1






18/03/2015


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
2187 Orthosia cerasi Common Quaker 1











17/03/2015


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
2187 Orthosia cerasi Common Quaker 1
2190 Orthosia gothica Hebrew Character 1






16/03/2015


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
2187 Orthosia cerasi Common Quaker 3

Monday 16 March 2015

Species (list) for 15/3/2015

Another single moth list, but the first for the year.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
2188 Orthosia incerta Clouded Drab 1

Sunday 15 March 2015

Species List for 2015 so far.

Now I've got Mapmate up and running again I thought I'd put up a summary of this year so far. It is very short, and judging by others I'm not doing very well so far.

 Species List for 14/3/2015
Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
2187 Orthosia cerasi Common Quaker 1

 Species List for 13/3/2015
Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
2187 Orthosia cerasi Common Quaker 1

Species List for 12/3/2015

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
1524 Emmelina monodactyla 0 1
2182 Orthosia cruda Small Quaker 1
2187 Orthosia cerasi Common Quaker 1
2190 Orthosia gothica Hebrew Character 2


 Species List for 11/3/2015
Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
1054 Acleris cristana 1
1663 Alsophila aescularia March Moth 1
2190 Orthosia gothica Hebrew Character 1

  Species List for 10/3/2015
Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
2190 Orthosia gothica Hebrew Character 1

   Species List for 7/3/2015

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
2190 Orthosia gothica Hebrew Character 1

Species List for 20/2/2015
Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
1926 Phigalia pilosaria Pale Brindled Beauty 1

Thursday 12 March 2015

Species List for 11/03/2015

Three moths last night!
Singles of Hebrew Character,March Moth and Acleris Christana. Unfortunately I failed to photograph the last one.
Hebrew Character

March Moth

Wednesday 11 March 2015

A Slow Start

Believe it or not I've been putting a trap out for about three weeks, but I've only caught three moths.
A Pale Bridled Beauty on 20/2/2015, a Common Quaker on 7/3/2015 and a Hebrew Character on 10/3/2015. Not a great start so far. My PC,with all my Map Mate records is being repaired, and so far I haven't managed to get Mapmate to work on my Laptop. Fortunately despite an original terminal prognosis it now seems that the PC is repairable. It may be old but at least it seems to work OK on all my databases.

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