My moth collection is rather meagre because it’s resulted from opportunism, rather than being built by my actually seeking moths out. I don’t set moth traps for the night flying moths and, thus, I am limited to day flying moths or any that we happen to spot resting, waiting for the hours of darkness.
Perhaps for the same reason, I’m a self confessed moth numbskull who’s rubbish at identifying them. Thus, for many of these identifications I am indebted to our county moth recorders at the BNHS and to iSpot.
The sequence here follows that of the Concise Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland (Townsend/Waring), with foreign species shoehorned in with the appropriate family (I hope).
Macro-moths
Six-spot Burnet | Zygaena fausta | Zygaena loti | Zygaena romeo | Red-tipped Clearwing |
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Riband Wave | Garden Carpet | Silver-ground Carpet | Common Carpet | Yellow Shell |
November Moth | Double-striped Pug | Chimney Sweeper | [Lesser] Treble Bar | Clouded Border |
Latticed Heath | Speckled Yellow | Feathered Thorn | Pale Brindled Beauty | Spring Usher |
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Feathered Beauty | Common Heath | Hummingbird Hawkmoth | Lesser Swallow Prominent |
Black Arches | Pale Tussock | |||
Yellow-tail | Dingy Footman | Cream-spot Tiger | Clouded Buff |
Cinnabar | Large Yellow Underwing | Pine Beauty | Cucullia santolinae | |
Mellein Moth | Dotted Chestnut | Copper Underwing | Nut-tree Tussock | Silver-Y |
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Red Underwing | Burnet Companion | Mother Shipton | Straw Dot | Snout |
Lythria cruentaria |
Micro-moths
Amblyptilia | Diurnea fagella | Longhorn Moth |
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