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British Moths
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DAY-FLYING MOTHS |
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| Hummingbird Hawk-moth | Narrow-bordered | 6 Spot Burnet | Burnet Companion | Mother Shipton | Chimney Sweeper | Latticed Heath |
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| Cinnabar | Cream-spot Tiger | Jersey Tiger | Silver Y | Essex Y | Mint (Aurata) | Mint (Purpuralis) |
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| Green Oak Roller/Tortrix | Ruby Tiger | Middle-barred Minor | Vapourer | Nettle-tap | Shaded Broad-bar | Straw Dot |
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| Esperia sulphurella | Fairy Moth, Green Longhorn | Fairy Moth | Grapholita internana | Timothy Tortrix | Argyresthia goedartella | |
| Adela reaumurella | Nemophora degeerella | day & night | ||||
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Mainly NIGHT-FLYING MOTHS |
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Elephant Hawk-moth |
Poplar Hawk-moth |
Merveille du jour |
Lime Hawk-moth |
July High Flyer |
Puss Moth |
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Dusky Thorn |
Canary-shouldered Thorn |
Death's-head Hawk-moth |
Brimstone |
Peach Blossom |
Garden Tiger |
Scalloped Oak |
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Scarce Silver-lines |
Small Magpie |
Swallow-tailed |
Blotched Emerald |
20 Plume |
Pink-barred Sallow |
Eyed Hawk-moth |
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Buff Tip |
Angle Shades |
Green Silver-lines |
Swallow Prominent |
Pale Tussock |
Old Lady |
Maiden's Blush |
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White Ermine |
Buff Ermine |
Mother of Pearl |
Barred Yellow |
Orange Swift |
Ghost Moth (f) |
Common Swift (m) |
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Yellow Shell |
Pine Hawk-moth |
Common Emerald |
Light Emerald |
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Flame Shoulder |
Marbled White Spot |
Clouded Silver |
The Flame |
White Satin |
Peppered |
Privet Hawk-moth |
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Treble-bar |
Brown China Mark |
Crowned Phlyctaenia |
Setaceous Hebrew Character |
Frosted Orange |
Figure of Eight |
Figure of Eighty |
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Large Ranunculus |
Feathered Thorn |
The Brick |
The Sallow |
Centre-barred Sallow |
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Large Yellow Underwing |
Lesser Yellow Underwing |
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing |
Copper Underwing |
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Red Underwing |
Straw Underwing |
Bordered Straw |
Dark Arches |
Light Arches |
Buff Arches |
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Oak Hook-tip (m) |
Oak Hook-tip (f) |
Beautiful Hook-tip |
Willow Beauty |
Mottled Beauty |
Knot Grass |
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Common Rustic |
Lesser Common Rustic |
Square-spot Rustic |
Small Square-spot |
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Heart and Dart |
Heart and Club |
The Uncertain |
Vine's Rustic |
Brown Rustic |
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Smokey Wainscot |
Common Wainscot |
Shoulder-striped Wainscot |
Small Wainscot |
Oak Lutestring |
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The Nutmeg |
Brindled Green |
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Cloaked Minor |
Tawny Marbled Minor |
Marbled Minor |
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Garden Carpet |
Common Carpet |
Green Carpet |
Green Carpet - faded |
Common Marbled Carpet |
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Red-green Carpet |
Spruce Carpet |
Grey Pine Carpet |
Blue-bordered Carpet |
Least Carpet |
Mottled Umber |
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Common Wave |
Common White Wave |
Riband Wave, form 1 |
Riband Wave, form 2 |
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Treble Brown Spot |
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Oak Nycteoline |
The Clay |
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Marbled Beauty |
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Wax Moth |
Meal Moth |
Indian Meal Moth |
Ingrailed Clay |
Blackneck |
Rusty Dot Pearl |
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Winter Moth |
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Treble Lines |
The Fan-foot |
Dun-bar |
Small Phoenix |
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Spindle Ermine |
Bird-cherry Ermine |
Scarce Footman |
Common Footman |
Dingy Footman |
Buff Footman |
Endotricha flammealis |
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The Vestal |
Udea olivalis |
Brown Grey, Scoparia ambigualis |
Scoparia pyralella |
Dipleurina lacustrata |
Orthopygia glaucinalis |
Dingy Shell |
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Double-striped Pug |
Mottled Pug |
Grey Pug |
Common Pug |
Ptycholoma lecheana |
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Isotrias rectifasciana |
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Plume – White |
Plume – light brown/grey |
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Water Veneer |
Dark Strawberry Tortrix |
Luquetia lobella |
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Crambus perlella |
Crambus lathoniellus |
Chrysoteuchia culmella |
Agriphila geniculea |
Agriphila tristella |
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Diamond-back |
Calybites phasianipennella |
Agapeta hamana |
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Eudemis profundana |
Day-flying? |
Mompha epilobiella ? |
Mompha subbistrigella |
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Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix |
Lozotaenia forsterana |
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Clothes Moth |
Brown House-moth |
White-shouldered House-moth |
Borkhausenia fuscescens |
Blastobasis adustella/ lignea |
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Horse Chestnut Leaf-miner |
Phyllonorycter oxyacanthae |
Syncopacma larseniella |
Carcina quercana |
Light Brown Apple Moth (f) |
Light Brown Apple Moth (m) |
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Acleris laterana |
Acleris ferrugana |
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Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix |
Acleris notana? |
Variegated Golden Tortrix |
Carnation Tortrix |
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Green Oak Roller/Tortrix |
Plum Tortrix |
Apotomis betuletana |
Tortrix - Epiblema sp. |
Bramble Shoot |
Triaxomera parasitella |
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