Specie's Page                                                             Micro Moths 49.161 to 49.240

Status: Resident in UK.

Wing Span: 16mm to 22mm.

Flight Period: June through into August.

Habitat: They in habit open grassy area's where dandelions grow.

Comment: This species is a fairly common resident in the southern half of the British Isles, and becomes scarcer further north.

Status: Resident in UK.

Wing Span: 16mm to 18mm.

Flight Period: May to August, and is either a single protracted brood, or there is a partial second brood.

Habitat: Damp areas wood land, hedgerows, grassy fields, and other area's where the food plants grow.

Comment: This species is a common resident to the UK.

Status: Resident in UK.

Wing Span: 14mm to 16mm.

Flight Period: June into August

Habitat: Many habitats on dry calcareous soils, and coastal areas.

Comment: This species is variable in both colour and markings. It is widely, but locally distributed throughout the British Isles.

Status: Resident in UK.

Wing Span: 10mm to 13mm.

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

Habitat: They inhabit waste ground, parks, gardens and many places where Creeping Thistle grows.

Comment: This moth is common, and localised in south England. Found as far north as Yorkshire, but is scarcer.

Status: Resident in UK.

Wing Span: 12mm to 16mm.

Flight Period: July to September.

Habitat: Damp Habitats are many and quite varied, they include parks, gardens, hedgerows, woodland and moorland, where Holly or Bilberry are present.

Comment: This species is a very common in the UK.

Status: Resident in UK.

Wing Span: 12mm to 14mm.

Flight Period: April into  June, again in August and September.

Habitat: This moth inhabits wood land, heath land, river banks, parks and gardens where Alder and Birch grow.

Comment: This species is resident in the UK, it is well distributed and fairly common in some places.

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Species 49.251 to 49.324

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