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.


Monday 28 August 2017

Species List for 26/08/2017

Looking at some photographs I've taken in the last week or so I realise that I need to look very carefully at the "Spectacles" as some of the Dark Spectacles are paler than I have been used to. In total 804 moths of 60 species.

Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
   15 Hepialus sylvina Orange Swift 4

658 Carcina quercana 1

873 Blastobasis adustella 12

998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 25

1048 Acleris variegana Garden Rose Tortrix 3

1076 Celypha lacunana 1

1302 Crambus perlella 2

1303 Agriphila selasella 13

1304 Agriphila straminella 2

1305 Agriphila tristella 30

1309 Agriphila geniculea 5

1342 Eudonia angustea 1

1356 Evergestis forficalis Garden Pebble 2

1357 Evergestis extimalis 1

1398 Nomophila noctuella Rush Veneer 1

1405 Pleuroptya ruralis Mother of Pearl 1

1465 Nephopterix angustella 1

1524 Emmelina monodactyla 3

1651 Cilix glaucata Chinese Character 2

1702 Idaea biselata Small Fan-footed Wave 3   

1707 Idaea seriata Small Dusty Wave 4

1708 Idaea dimidiata Single-dotted Wave 2

1738 Epirrhoe alternata Common Carpet 1

1776 Colostygia pectinataria Green Carpet 1

1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 3

1835 Eupithecia tripunctaria White-spotted Pug 2

1838 Eupithecia icterata Tawny Speckled Pug 1

1906 Opisthograptis luteolata Brimstone Moth 12

1914 Ennomos fuscantaria Dusky Thorn 2

1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 5

1961 Campaea margaritata Light Emerald 6

2007 Pheosia tremula Swallow Prominent 1

2044 Eilema griseola Dingy Footman 1

2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 1

2091 Agrotis ipsilon Dark Sword-grass 1

2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 3

2102 Ochropleura plecta Flame Shoulder 4

2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 91

2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 1

2110 Noctua fimbriata Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1

2111 Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 11

2123 Diarsia rubi Small Square-spot 12

2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 462

2134 Xestia xanthographa Square-spot Rustic 12

2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 3

2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 1

2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 1

2199 Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 3

2295 Cryphia muralis Marbled Green 2

2299 Amphipyra tragopoginis Mouse Moth 2

2343x Mesapamea secalis agg. Common Rustic agg. 2

2353 Luperina testacea Flounced Rustic 12

2361 Hydraecia micacea Rosy Rustic 1

2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 18

2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1

2400 Helicoverpa armigera Scarce Bordered Straw 1

2449 Abrostola triplasia Dark Spectacle 1

2450 Abrostola tripartita Spectacle 2

2477 Hypena proboscidalis Snout 1

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