Specie's Page                                                               Macro Moths 70.137 to 70.157

Status: Resident in UK.

Wing Span: 20mm to 26mm.

Flight Period: May into July.

Habitat: Habitats include down land, limestone hills, sand hills, shingle beaches, grassy embankments, and damp meadows with Yellow Rattle.

Comment: This species is a widespread, but locally common resident throughout the British Isles.

Status: Resident in UK.

Wing Span: 15mm to 19mm.

Flight Period: April and May.

Habitat: Found in parks, gardens, woods, hedgerows, disused railways, heaths, commons, and places where  the food plants grow.

Comment: Common and well spread out in the UK, including the Inner Hebrides. There is a lot of variation in the colour of the wing markings.

Status: Resident in UK.

Wing Span: 14mm to 19mm.

Flight Period: May and June, again in July and August.

Habitat: They inhabit bushy places with a variety of low growing plants.

Comment: This moth is common and widely distributed in the UK. Double brooded in south Britain, and single brooded in the north.

Status: Resident in UK.

Wing Span: 17mm to 21mm.

Flight Period: June and July.

Habitat: Its habitats are wooded area's which include, parks, gardens, woodland rides and fringes, hedgerows and any where there is a reasonable number of tree's and shrubs.

Comment: This moth is common and widely distributed the UK, but are more localised in Scotland..

Status: Resident in UK.

Wing Span: 18mm to 22mm.

Flight Period: May until July.

Habitat:  Its habitats are wooded area's which include, parks, gardens, hedgerows, woodland rides and fringes,  commons, road side verges, river banks, and any where there Foxgloves grow.

Comment: Moths of this species are common and widely distributed residents in the British Isles.

Status: Resident in UK.

Wing Span: 19mm to 22mm.

Flight Period: May and June.

Habitat: Damp  It inhabits open wood land, which can include parks and gardens, where flowering Hawthorn is present.

Comment: Moths of this species resident, and are wide spread, but localised in England, Wales and Ireland.

Status: Resident in UK.

Wing Span: 19mm to 22mm.

Flight Period: April and May.

Habitat: They inhabit woodland, gardens, hedgerows and other places where their Oak and  Hawthorn grow.

Comment: Moths of this species are quite common over most of England, Wales and Ireland. In Scotland it is wide spread but more localised, and it is absent from the extreme north.