Moths

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

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

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

Red Underwing	Burnet Companion	Mother Shipton	Straw Dot	Snout

Lythria cruentaria

 

Micro-moths

Amblyptilia	Diurnea fagella	Longhorn Moth