Specie's Page                                                               Macro Moths 73.358 to 74.003

Status: Resident in UK.

Wing Span: 36mm to 38mm.

Flight Period: July and August.

Habitat: This species inhabits grassy places including parks, gardens, waste ground, roadside verges. 

Comment: This moth is a fairly common resident throughout the British Isles, including the Orkney's and Hebrides.

Status: Resident in UK.

Wing Span: 7mm to 10mm.

Flight Period: June and July.

Habitat:  It inhabits deciduous wood land, and is found in well wooded suburbs, the larvae feed on many shrubs and herbaceous plants.

Comment: Well distributed, and local in the British Isles.  It is probably most common in south eastern England.

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Status: Resident in UK.

Wing Span: 35mm to 45mm.

Flight Period: May to July, again in August to October.

Habitat: Wooded area's, which can include parks and gardens.

Comment: Well distributed resident, and migrant to the British Isles. They are most common in the south, but have been reported from all parts.

Status: Resident in UK.

Wing Span: 15mm to 20mm.

Flight Period: June and July.

Habitat: Habitats are shrubby places such as hedgerows, roadside verges, woodland, commons and other places where suitable trees and shrubs grow.

Comment: This moth is a well distributed resident throughout England and Wales.

Status: Resident in UK.

Wing Span: 36mm to 46mm.

Flight Period: June and July.

Habitat: Gardens, parks, waste ground, woodland, hedgerows, ditches provided they are fairly damp and marshy.

Comment: Well distributed resident to the British Isles, it is not usually common excepting for the old English midlands slag heaps.