I keep a running total of which moths species have visited my garden. Here is that list. Total to date = 239.
Records prior to 2006 are in black. New species found in 2006 were entered in purple, in 2007 new species were entered in red and for 2008 they will be in green. For 2009 the colour is blue. To search for a moth on this page press CTRL + F (Win IE).
| B & F | TAXON | VERNACULAR |
| 15 | Hepialus sylvina | Orange Swift |
| 17 | Hepialus lupulinus | Common Swift |
| 161 | Zeuzera pyrina | Leopard Moth |
| 379 | Synanthedon myopaeformis | Red-belted Clearwing |
| 1634 | Malacosoma neustria | Lackey |
| 1637 | Lasiocampa quercus | Oak Eggar |
| 1648 | Drepana falcataria | Pebble Hook-tip |
| 1651 | Cilix glaucata | Chinese Character |
| 1652 | Thyatira batis | Peach Blossom |
| 1653 | Habrosyne pyritoides | Buff Arches |
| 1654 | Tethea ocularis octogesimea | Figure of Eighty |
| 1663 | Alsophila aescularia | March Moth |
| 1669 | Hemithea aestivaria | Common Emerald |
| 1673 | Hemistola chrysoprasaria | Small Emerald |
| 1676 | Cyclophora annularia | Mocha |
| 1680 | Cyclophora punctaria | Maiden's Blush |
| 1681 | Cyclophora linearia | Clay Triple-lines |
| 1682 | Timandra comae | Blood-vein |
| 1689 | Scopula marginepunctata | Mullein Wave |
| 1690 | Scopula imitaria | Small Blood-vein |
| 1707 | Idaea seriata | Small Dusty Wave |
| 1711 | Idaea trigeminata | Treble Brown Spot |
| 1713 | Idaea aversata | Riband Wave |
| 1720 | Orthonama obstipata | Gem |
| 1722 | Xanthorhoe designata | Flame Carpet |
| 1724 | Xanthorhoe spadicearia | Red Twin-spot Carpet |
| 1727 | Xanthorhoe montanata | Silver-ground Carpet |
| 1728 | Xanthorhoe fluctuata | Garden Carpet |
| 1738 | Epirrhoe alternata | Common Carpet |
| 1742 | Camptogramma bilineata | Yellow Shell |
| 1747 | Anticlea derivata | Streamer |
| 1750 | Lampropteryx suffumata | Water Carpet |
| 1752 | Cosmorhoe ocellata | Purple Bar |
| 1754 | Eulithis prunata | Phoenix |
| 1759 | Ecliptopera silaceata | Small Phoenix |
| 1760 | Chloroclysta siterata | Red-green Carpet |
| 1764 | Chloroclysta truncata | Common Marbled Carpet |
| 1765 | Cidaria fulvata | Barred Yellow |
| 1766 | Plemyria rubiginata | Blue-bordered Carpet |
| 1767 | Thera firmata | Pine Carpet |
| 1768 | Thera obeliscata | Grey Pine Carpet |
| 1769 | Thera britannica | Spruce Carpet |
| 1771a | Thera cupressata | Cypress Carpet |
| 1773 | Electrophaes corylata | Broken-barred Carpet |
| 1776 | Colostygia pectinataria | Green Carpet |
| 1777 | Hydriomena furcata | July Highflyer |
| 1781 | Horisme vitalbata | Small Waved Umber |
| 1782 | Horisme tersata | Fern |
| 1784 | Melanthia procellata | Pretty Chalk Carpet |
| 1795 | Epirrita dilutata | November Moth |
| 1799 | Operophtera brumata | Winter Moth |
| 1803 | Perizoma alchemillata | Small Rivulet |
| 1813 | Eupithecia haworthiata | Haworth's Pug |
| 1816 | Eupithecia linariata | Toadflax Pug |
| 1817 | Eupithecia pulchellata | Foxglove Pug |
| 1819 | Eupithecia exiguata | Mottled Pug |
| 1825 | Eupithecia centaureata | Lime-speck Pug |
| 1827 | Eupithecia intricata | Freyer's Pug |
| 1830 | Eupithecia absinthiata | Wormwood Pug |
| 1834 | Eupithecia vulgata | Common Pug |
| 1835 | Eupithecia tripunctaria | White-spotted Pug |
| 1842 | Eupithecia simpliciata | Plain Pug |
| 1852 | Eupithecia abbreviata | Brindled Pug |
| 1853 | Eupithecia dodoneata | Oak-tree Pug |
| 1855 | Eupithecia phoeniceata | Cypress Pug |
| 1858 | Chloroclystis v-ata | V-Pug |
| 1860 | Pasiphila rectangulata | Green Pug |
| 1862 | Gymnoscelis rufifasciata | Double-striped Pug |
| 1867 | Aplocera plagiata | Treble Bar |
| 1876 | Hydrelia flammeolaria | Small Yellow Wave |
| 1883 | Acasis viretata | Yellow-barred Brindle |
| 1884 | Abraxas grossulariata | Magpie Moth |
| 1893 | Macaria liturata | Tawny-barred Angle |
| 1902 | Petrophora chlorosata | Brown Silver-line |
| 1904 | Plagodis dolabraria | Scorched Wing |
| 1906 | Opisthograptis luteolata | Brimstone Moth |
| 1912 | Ennomos quercinaria | August Thorn |
| 1913 | Ennomos alniaria | Canary-shouldered Thorn |
| 1914 | Ennomos fuscantaria | Dusky Thorn |
| 1917 | Selenia dentaria | Early Thorn |
| 1920 | Odontopera bidentata | Scalloped Hazel |
| 1921 | Crocallis elinguaria | Scalloped Oak |
| 1922 | Ourapteryx sambucaria | Swallow-tailed Moth |
| 1923 | Colotois pennaria | Feathered Thorn |
| 1927 | Lycia hirtaria | Brindled Beauty |
| 1931 | Biston betularia | Peppered Moth |
| 1934 | Agriopis marginaria | Dotted Border |
| 1936 | Menophra abruptaria | Waved Umber |
| 1937 | Peribatodes rhomboidaria | Willow Beauty |
| 1941 | Alcis repandata | Mottled Beauty |
| 1947 | Ectropis bistortata | Engrailed |
| 1955 | Cabera pusaria | Common Wave |
| 1957 | Lomographa bimaculata | White-pinion Spotted |
| 1958 | Lomographa temerata | Clouded Silver |
| 1960 | Theria primaria | Early Moth |
| 1961 | Campaea margaritata | Light Emerald |
| 1962 | Hylaea fasciaria | Barred Red |
| 1976 | Sphinx ligustri | Privet Hawk-moth |
| 1979 | Mimas tiliae | Lime Hawk-moth |
| 1980 | Smerinthus ocellata | Eyed Hawk-moth |
| 1981 | Laothoe populi | Poplar Hawk-moth |
| 1984 | Macroglossum stellatarum | Humming-bird Hawk-moth |
| 1991 | Deilephila elpenor | Elephant Hawk-moth |
| 1992 | Deilephila porcellus | Small Elephant Hawk-moth |
| 1994 | Phalera bucephala | Buff-tip |
| 1995 | Cerura vinula | Puss Moth |
| 1999 | Stauropus fagi | Lobster Moth |
| 2000 | Notodonta dromedarius | Iron Prominent |
| 2006 | Pheosia gnoma | Lesser Swallow Prominent |
| 2008 | Ptilodon capucina | Coxcomb Prominent |
| 2011 | Pterostoma palpina | Pale Prominent |
| 2019 | Clostera curtula | Chocolate-tip |
| 2026 | Orgyia antiqua | Vapourer |
| 2028 | Calliteara pudibunda | Pale Tussock |
| 2030 | Euproctis similis | Yellow-tail |
| 2033 | Lymantria monacha | Black Arches |
| 2035 | Thumatha senex | Round-winged Muslin |
| 2037 | Miltochrista miniata | Rosy Footman |
| 2043 | Eilema sororcula | Orange Footman |
| 2044 | Eilema griseola | Dingy Footman |
| 2047 | Eilema complana | Scarce Footman |
| 2050 | Eilema lurideola | Common Footman |
| 2057 | Arctia caja | Garden Tiger |
| 2061 | Spilosoma luteum | Buff Ermine |
| 2063 | Diaphora mendica | Muslin Moth |
| 2064 | Phragmatobia fuliginosa | Ruby Tiger |
| 2068 | Callimorpha dominula | Scarlet Tiger |
| 2077 | Nola cucullatella | Short-cloaked Moth |
| 2078 | Nola confusalis | Least Black Arches |
| 2087 | Agrotis segetum | Turnip Moth |
| 2088 | Agrotis clavis | Heart and Club |
| 2089 | Agrotis exclamationis | Heart and Dart |
| 2091 | Agrotis ipsilon | Dark Sword-grass |
| 2092 | Agrotis puta | Shuttle-shaped Dart |
| 2098 | Axylia putris | Flame |
| 2102 | Ochropleura plecta | Flame Shoulder |
| 2107 | Noctua pronuba | Large Yellow Underwing |
| 2109 | Noctua comes | Lesser Yellow Underwing |
| 2110 | Noctua fimbriata | Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing |
| 2111 | Noctua janthe | Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing |
| 2112 | Noctua interjecta caliginosa | Least Yellow Underwing |
| 2118 | Lycophotia porphyrea | True Lover's Knot |
| 2119 | Peridroma saucia | Pearly Underwing |
| 2120 | Diarsia mendica | Ingrailed Clay |
| 2123 | Diarsia rubi | Small Square-spot |
| 2126 | Xestia c-nigrum | Setaceous Hebrew Character |
| 2128 | Xestia triangulum | Double Square-spot |
| 2133 | Xestia sexstrigata | Six-striped Rustic |
| 2134 | Xestia xanthographa | Square-spot Rustic |
| 2139 | Cerastis rubricosa | Red Chestnut |
| 2147 | Hada plebeja | Shears |
| 2154 | Mamestra brassicae | Cabbage Moth |
| 2155 | Melanchra persicariae | Dot Moth |
| 2160 | Lacanobia oleracea | Bright-line Brown-eye |
| 2164 | Hecatera bicolorata | Broad-barred White |
| 2166 | Hadena rivularis | Campion |
| 2173 | Hadena bicruris | Lychnis |
| 2182 | Orthosia cruda | Small Quaker |
| 2187 | Orthosia cerasi | Common Quaker |
| 2188 | Orthosia incerta | Clouded Drab |
| 2189 | Orthosia munda | Twin-spotted Quaker |
| 2190 | Orthosia gothica | Hebrew Character |
| 2193 | Mythimna ferrago | Clay |
| 2198 | Mythimna impura | Smoky Wainscot |
| 2199 | Mythimna pallens | Common Wainscot |
| 2203 | Mythimna unipuncta | White-speck |
| 2232 | Aporophyla nigra | Black Rustic |
| 2236 | Lithophane hepatica | Pale Pinion |
| 2237 | Lithophane ornitopus lactipennis | Grey Shoulder-knot |
| 2240 | Lithophane leautieri hesperica | Blair's Shoulder-knot |
| 2243 | Xylocampa areola | Early Grey |
| 2245 | Allophyes oxyacanthae | Green-brindled Crescent |
| 2248 | Dryobotodes eremita | Brindled Green |
| 2252 | Polymixis flavicincta | Large Ranunculus |
| 2255 | Polymixis lichenea | Feathered Ranunculus |
| 2256 | Eupsilia transversa | Satellite |
| 2258 | Conistra vaccinii | Chestnut |
| 2259 | Conistra ligula | Dark Chestnut |
| 2260 | Conistra rubiginea | Dotted Chestnut |
| 2263 | Agrochola lota | Red-line Quaker |
| 2264 | Agrochola macilenta | Yellow-line Quaker |
| 2267 | Agrochola lychnidis | Beaded Chestnut |
| 2269 | Atethmia centrago | Centre-barred Sallow |
| 2270 | Omphaloscelis lunosa | Lunar Underwing |
| 2272 | Xanthia aurago | Barred Sallow |
| 2278 | Acronicta megacephala | Poplar Grey |
| 2279 | Acronicta aceris | Sycamore |
| 2280 | Acronicta leporina | Miller |
| 2281 | Acronicta alni | Alder Moth |
| 2284 | Acronicta psi | Grey Dagger |
| 2289 | Acronicta rumicis | Knot Grass |
| 2291 | Craniophora ligustri | Coronet |
| 2293 | Cryphia domestica | Marbled Beauty |
| 2295 | Cryphia muralis | Marbled Green |
| 2297 | Amphipyra pyramidea | Copper Underwing |
| 2298 | Amphipyra berbera svenssoni | Svensson's Copper Underwing |
| 2300 | Mormo maura | Old Lady |
| 2305 | Euplexia lucipara | Small Angle Shades |
| 2306 | Phlogophora meticulosa | Angle Shades |
| 2312 | Ipimorpha subtusa | Olive |
| 2314 | Parastichtis ypsillon | Dingy Shears |
| 2318 | Cosmia trapezina | Dun-bar |
| 2321 | Apamea monoglypha | Dark Arches |
| 2322 | Apamea lithoxylaea | Light Arches |
| 2331 | Apamea unanimis | Small Clouded Brindle |
| 2337 | Oligia strigilis | Marbled Minor |
| 2339 | Oligia latruncula | Tawny Marbled Minor |
| 2341 | Mesoligia furuncula | Cloaked Minor |
| 2343 | Mesapamea secalis | Common Rustic |
| 2343a | Mesapamea didyma | Lesser Common Rustic |
| 2345 | Photedes minima | Small Dotted Buff |
| 2352 | Eremobia ochroleuca | Dusky Sallow |
| 2353 | Luperina testacea | Flounced Rustic |
| 2360 | Amphipoea oculea | Ear Moth |
| 2361 | Hydraecia micacea | Rosy Rustic |
| 2380 | Charanyca trigrammica | Treble Lines |
| 2381 | Hoplodrina alsines | Uncertain |
| 2382 | Hoplodrina blanda | Rustic |
| 2384 | Hoplodrina ambigua | Vine's Rustic |
| 2385 | Spodoptera exigua | Small Mottled Willow |
| 2389 | Paradrina clavipalpis | Pale Mottled Willow |
| 2400 | Helicoverpa armigera | Scarce Bordered Straw |
| 2403 | Heliothis peltigera | Bordered Straw |
| 2410 | Protodeltote pygarga | Marbled White Spot |
| 2421 | Bena bicolorana | Scarce Silver-lines |
| 2422 | Pseudoips prasinana britannica | Green Silver-lines |
| 2423 | Nycteola revayana | Oak Nycteoline |
| 2425 | Colocasia coryli | Nut-tree Tussock |
| 2432 | Trichoplusia ni | Ni Moth |
| 2434 | Diachrysia chrysitis | Burnished Brass |
| 2439 | Plusia festucae | Gold Spot |
| 2441 | Autographa gamma | Silver Y |
| 2450 | Abrostola tripartita | Spectacle |
| 2452 | Catocala nupta | Red Underwing |
| 2466 | Lygephila pastinum | Blackneck |
| 2473 | Laspeyria flexula | Beautiful Hook-tip |
| 2474 | Rivula sericealis | Straw Dot |
| 2477 | Hypena proboscidalis | Snout |
| 2492 | Herminia grisealis | Small Fan-foot |
Records prior to 2006 in black. New species found in 2006 added in purple in 2007 it was red and in 2008 green. For 2009 the colour is blue.
Contact the Webmaster Top of page Archive
Last updated 4.7.2009 James Payne 2009