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

Cream-spot Tiger	Silver-Y Moth	Scarlet Tiger	Mother Shipton

Pale Tussock			Yellow Shell

Red Underwing	Latticed Heath	Nut-tree Tussock	Feathered Thorn

Dotted Chestnut	Cucullia santolinae	Clouded Buff	Engrailed

Dingy Footman	Common%20Heath	Common Carpet	Burnet Companion

Yellow-tail	November Moth	Drinker	Double-striped Pug

Pine Hawkmoth	Snout	Riband Wave	Clouded Border

Black Arches		Lythria cruentaria	Hummingbird Hawkmoth

Large Yellow Underwing	Chimney Sweeper	Pine Beauty	Feathered Beauty

Lesser Swallow Prominent	Brindled Beauty	Speckled Yellow	Straw Dot

Shaded Broad-bar	Mullein	Red-tipped Clearwing

Cinnabar

Garden Carpet	Silver-ground Carpet	6-spot_Burnet

5-spot Burnet	Zygaena fausta	Zygaena loti	Zygaena romeo

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

Alucita hexadactyla	Anthophila fabriciana	Elophila nymphaeata	Agonopterix sp

Endotricha flammealis	Grapholita jungiella	Nymphula nitidulata	Tortrix viridana