(Scopoli 1763) | (Scopoli 1763) | (Scopoli 1763) | (Scopoli 1763) | (Scopoli 1763) |
Crambidae - Pyraustinae | Crambidae - Pyraustinae | Crambidae - Pyraustinae | Crambidae - Pyraustinae | Crambidae - Pyraustinae |
Mother of Pearl | Mother of Pearl | Mother of Pearl | Mother of Pearl | Mother of Pearl |
Pleuroptya ruralis | Pleuroptya ruralis | Pleuroptya ruralis | Pleuroptya ruralis | Pleuroptya ruralis |
63.038 BF 1405 | 63.038 BF 1405 | 63.038 BF 1405 | 63.038 BF 1405 | 63.038 BF 1405 |
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Status: Resident in UK Wing Span: 26mm to 40mm. Flight Period: July and August. Habitat: It's are numerous and include hedgerows, gardens, woodland fringes, motorway embankments, most places where Common Stinging Nettle grow. Comment: Well distributed throughout most of the British Isles .More common in the south, and quite localised in the north. |
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(Denis & Schiffermuller 1775) | (Denis & Schiffermuller 1775) | (Linnaeus 1758) | (Linnaeus 1758) | (Panzer 1804) |
Crambidae - Pyraustinae | Crambidae - Pyraustinae | Crambidae - Glaphyriinae | Crambidae - Glaphyriinae | Crambidae - Scopariinae |
Rush Veneer | Rush Veneer | Garden Pebble | Garden Pebble | Little Grey |
Nemophila noctuella | Nemophila noctuella | Evergestis forficalis | Evergestis forficalis | Dipleurina lacustrata |
63.052 BF 1398 | 63.052 BF 1398 | 63.057 BF 1356 | 63.057 BF 1356 | 63.067 BF 1338 |
Status: Migrant to the UK Wing Span: 26mm to 32mm. Flight Period: March through to October. Habitat: Grassy places usually around the south and east coasts. Comment: This moth is a fairly common migrant to many parts of the British Isles. They can be very common some years, and mainly inhabit heaths and open coastal area's. |
Status: Resident in UK Wing Span: 27mm to 31mm. Flight Period: May and June, again in August and September, occasionally a third brood in late autumn as well. Habitat: Gardens, allotments and rural area's where brassicae grow. Comment: This moth is fairly common on the British and Irish mainland, also on the Inner, and Outer Hebrides, Isle of Man, Scilly Isles, Channel Islands. |
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(Linnaeus 1758) | (Linnaeus 1758) | (Linnaeus 1758) | (Linnaeus 1758) | (Panzer 1804) |
Crambidae - Scopariinae | Crambidae - Scopariinae | Crambidae - Scopariinae | Crambidae - Scopariinae | Crambidae - Scopariinae |
Small Grey | Small Grey | Small Grey | Small grey | Little Grey |
Eudonia mercurella | Eudonia mercurella | Eudonia mercurella | Eudonia mercurella | Dipleurina lacustrata |
63.074 BF 1344 | 63.074 BF 1344 | 63.074 BF 1344 | 63.074 BF 1344 | 63.067 BF 1338 |
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Status: Resident in UK Wing Span: 16mm to 19mm. Flight Period: June through to September. Habitat: They inhabit parks, gardens, wood land, hedgerows and other places where the larval food plant, mosses grow. Comment: This moth is a common resident to most parts of the British Isles, including the Hebrides. |
Status: Resident in UK Wing Span: 15mm to 26mm. Flight Period: July and August. Habitat: They inhabit parks, gardens, wood land, hedgerows and other places where the larval food plant, mosses grow. Comment: This moth is a resident, and is widely distributed over most of the British Isles. |
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(Curtis 127) | (Curtis 127) | |||
Crambidae - Pyraustinae | Crambidae - Pyraustinae |
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Marsh Grey | Marsh Grey |
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Eudonia pallida | Eudonia pallida | |||
63.075 BF 1336 | 63.075 BF 1336 | |||
Status: Resident in UK Wing Span: 17mm to 19mm. Flight Period: Some entomologists now think that the moth can be on the wing in May, through to September. Though July and August is the commonly accepted time. Habitat: Fens and marshes, some times rough grassy places, and scrub. Comment: This moth is common, and is well distributed over the UK. |
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Species 63.080 to 63.117 continued on the next page |
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