Moths
My moth collection is rather meagre because it is the result of 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 somewhat 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.
Sequencing such collections drives me nuts. I used to follow that of the Concise Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland (Townsend/Waring), foreign species being shoehorned in, but I found it difficult deciding if I had a repeat or not. So, for all I now go alphabetically by scientific name.
Spring Usher |
[Lesser] Treble Bar |
Copper Underwing |
Garden Tiger |
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Cream-spot Tiger |
Silver-Y Moth |
Scarlet Tiger |
Mother Shipton |
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Pale Tussock |
Yellow Shell |
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Red Underwing |
Latticed Heath |
Nut-tree Tussock |
Feathered Thorn |
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Dotted Chestnut |
Cucullia santolinae |
Clouded Buff |
Engrailed |
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Dingy Footman |
Common%20Heath |
Common Carpet |
Burnet Companion |
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Yellow-tail |
November Moth |
Drinker |
Double-striped Pug |
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Pine Hawkmoth |
Snout |
Riband Wave |
Clouded Border |
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Black Arches |
Lythria cruentaria |
Hummingbird Hawkmoth |
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Large Yellow Underwing |
Chimney Sweeper |
Pine Beauty |
Feathered Beauty |
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Lesser Swallow Prominent |
Brindled Beauty |
Speckled Yellow |
Straw Dot |
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Shaded Broad-bar |
Mullein |
Red-tipped Clearwing |
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Cinnabar |
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Garden Carpet |
Silver-ground Carpet |
6-spot_Burnet |
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5-spot Burnet |
Zygaena fausta |
Zygaena loti |
Zygaena romeo |
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Micro Moths
Since most micro moths do not have common Names, alphabetical sequence on scientific name is pretty the only option anyway.
Amblyptilia |
Diurnea fagella |
Adela reaumurella |
Agapeta hamana |
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Alucita hexadactyla |
Anthophila fabriciana |
Elophila nymphaeata |
Agonopterix sp |
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Endotricha flammealis |
Grapholita jungiella |
Nymphula nitidulata |
Tortrix viridana |
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