Moths

The Early Long-horn is a micro moth with a wingspan of around 15mm.

The Common Marbled Carpet is a common and variable species. There are two broods, flying in May and June, and again from August to October, sometimes later into the year.

The Latticed Heath moth has yellowish to white wings, with a ‘latticed’ pattern, created by brown lines and veins on the upper and underside of the wings.

The Brown China-mark moth can be quite variable. Some are finely-patterned, with white patches and streaks and some are dark and dull-looking.

The Common Wave has feathery antennae, white wings, with brownish scales and tiny yellowish dots, which give it a buffish appearance.

The Swallow-tailed Moth is a large moth with pale yellow wings with two diagonal dark lines across the forewings and one across the hindwings.

The Light Emerald is an attractive pale green moth, with a blood-red tip on the forewing.

The Silver-ground Carpet moth displays a wide range of differing depths of colour, although they all have a distinctive whitish ground colour.

The Common Carpet moth, as its name suggests, is a fairly common moth.

The Bird-cherry Ermine moth is one of the easiest small ‘Ermines’ to identify, having five rows of black dots on the forewing.

The Burnished Brass moth is a double-brooding moth.

The Garden Grass-Veneer is one of Britain’s commonest ‘grass moths’.

The Five-spot Burnet moth is a highly visible moth with five red spots on their black forewings.

The Chimney Sweeper moth is a daytime flyer, especially in sunny weather.

The Clouded Border moth prefers damp areas in woodland or hedgerows where the larva feed on Sallows.

The Six-spot Burnet moth is highly visible with its bright red spots on a black background.

The Blue-bordered Carpet moth is the most common of the carpet moths.

The Cinnabar moth is unmistakeable with its red and black wings.

A micro-moth with a white to pale-orange central strip on a light to deep brown.

A grey-brown moth with variable “antler pattern”.